423 is 2 percent of what number?
If you take 2 percent of a number and get 423, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 2 percent of a number is 423 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 423 by 100 and then divide the total by 2 as follows: (423 x 100) / 2
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
21150
Therefore, the answer to "423 is 2 percent of what number?" is 21150, and you can also derive that 2 percent of 21150 equals 423.
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