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If you take 2 percent of a number and get 20, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 2 percent of a number is 20 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 20 by 100 and then divide the total by 2 as follows: (20 x 100) / 2

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

1000


Therefore, the answer to "20 is 2 percent of what number?" is 1000, and you can also derive that 2 percent of 1000 equals 20.

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