144 is 2 percent of what number?
If you take 2 percent of a number and get 144, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 2 percent of a number is 144 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 144 by 100 and then divide the total by 2 as follows: (144 x 100) / 2
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
7200
Therefore, the answer to "144 is 2 percent of what number?" is 7200, and you can also derive that 2 percent of 7200 equals 144.
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