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If you take 16 percent of a number and get 492, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 16 percent of a number is 492 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 492 by 100 and then divide the total by 16 as follows: (492 x 100) / 16

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

3075


Therefore, the answer to "492 is 16 percent of what number?" is 3075, and you can also derive that 16 percent of 3075 equals 492.

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