494 is 10 percent of what number?
If you take 10 percent of a number and get 494, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 10 percent of a number is 494 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 494 by 100 and then divide the total by 10 as follows: (494 x 100) / 10
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
4940
Therefore, the answer to "494 is 10 percent of what number?" is 4940, and you can also derive that 10 percent of 4940 equals 494.
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