127 is 10 percent of what number?
If you take 10 percent of a number and get 127, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 10 percent of a number is 127 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 127 by 100 and then divide the total by 10 as follows: (127 x 100) / 10
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
1270
Therefore, the answer to "127 is 10 percent of what number?" is 1270, and you can also derive that 10 percent of 1270 equals 127.
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