249 is 2 percent of what number?
If you take 2 percent of a number and get 249, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 2 percent of a number is 249 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 249 by 100 and then divide the total by 2 as follows: (249 x 100) / 2
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
12450
Therefore, the answer to "249 is 2 percent of what number?" is 12450, and you can also derive that 2 percent of 12450 equals 249.
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