1020 is 2 percent of what number?
If you take 2 percent of a number and get 1020, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 2 percent of a number is 1020 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 1020 by 100 and then divide the total by 2 as follows: (1020 x 100) / 2
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
51000
Therefore, the answer to "1020 is 2 percent of what number?" is 51000, and you can also derive that 2 percent of 51000 equals 1020.
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