1640 is 16 percent of what number?
If you take 16 percent of a number and get 1640, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 16 percent of a number is 1640 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 1640 by 100 and then divide the total by 16 as follows: (1640 x 100) / 16
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
10250
Therefore, the answer to "1640 is 16 percent of what number?" is 10250, and you can also derive that 16 percent of 10250 equals 1640.
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