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If you take 16 percent of a number and get 72000, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 16 percent of a number is 72000 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 72000 by 100 and then divide the total by 16 as follows: (72000 x 100) / 16

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

450000


Therefore, the answer to "72000 is 16 percent of what number?" is 450000, and you can also derive that 16 percent of 450000 equals 72000.

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