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If you take 16 percent of a number and get 40000, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 16 percent of a number is 40000 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 40000 by 100 and then divide the total by 16 as follows: (40000 x 100) / 16

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

250000


Therefore, the answer to "40000 is 16 percent of what number?" is 250000, and you can also derive that 16 percent of 250000 equals 40000.

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