142 is 14 percent of what number?
If you take 14 percent of a number and get 142, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 14 percent of a number is 142 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 142 by 100 and then divide the total by 14 as follows: (142 x 100) / 14
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
1014.29
Therefore, the answer to "142 is 14 percent of what number?" is 1014.29, and you can also derive that 14 percent of 1014.29 equals 142.
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