4200 is 12 percent of what number?
If you take 12 percent of a number and get 4200, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 12 percent of a number is 4200 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 4200 by 100 and then divide the total by 12 as follows: (4200 x 100) / 12
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
35000
Therefore, the answer to "4200 is 12 percent of what number?" is 35000, and you can also derive that 12 percent of 35000 equals 4200.
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