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If you take 10 percent of a number and get 1500, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 10 percent of a number is 1500 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 1500 by 100 and then divide the total by 10 as follows: (1500 x 100) / 10

When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:

15000


Therefore, the answer to "1500 is 10 percent of what number?" is 15000, and you can also derive that 10 percent of 15000 equals 1500.

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