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If you take 15 percent of a number and get 249, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 15 percent of a number is 249 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 249 by 100 and then divide the total by 15 as follows: (249 x 100) / 15

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

1660


Therefore, the answer to "249 is 15 percent of what number?" is 1660, and you can also derive that 15 percent of 1660 equals 249.

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