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If you take 17 percent of a number and get 2720, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 17 percent of a number is 2720 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 2720 by 100 and then divide the total by 17 as follows: (2720 x 100) / 17

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

16000


Therefore, the answer to "2720 is 17 percent of what number?" is 16000, and you can also derive that 17 percent of 16000 equals 2720.

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