5250 is 2 percent of what number?
If you take 2 percent of a number and get 5250, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 2 percent of a number is 5250 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 5250 by 100 and then divide the total by 2 as follows: (5250 x 100) / 2
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
262500
Therefore, the answer to "5250 is 2 percent of what number?" is 262500, and you can also derive that 2 percent of 262500 equals 5250.
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