502 is 10 percent of what number?
If you take 10 percent of a number and get 502, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 10 percent of a number is 502 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 502 by 100 and then divide the total by 10 as follows: (502 x 100) / 10
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
5020
Therefore, the answer to "502 is 10 percent of what number?" is 5020, and you can also derive that 10 percent of 5020 equals 502.
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