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If you take 17 percent of a number and get 221, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 17 percent of a number is 221 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 221 by 100 and then divide the total by 17 as follows: (221 x 100) / 17

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

1300


Therefore, the answer to "221 is 17 percent of what number?" is 1300, and you can also derive that 17 percent of 1300 equals 221.

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