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If you take 12 percent of a number and get 159000, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 12 percent of a number is 159000 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 159000 by 100 and then divide the total by 12 as follows: (159000 x 100) / 12

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

1325000


Therefore, the answer to "159000 is 12 percent of what number?" is 1325000, and you can also derive that 12 percent of 1325000 equals 159000.

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