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If you take 12 percent of a number and get 462, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 12 percent of a number is 462 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 462 by 100 and then divide the total by 12 as follows: (462 x 100) / 12

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

3850


Therefore, the answer to "462 is 12 percent of what number?" is 3850, and you can also derive that 12 percent of 3850 equals 462.

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