8490 is 2 percent of what number?
If you take 2 percent of a number and get 8490, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 2 percent of a number is 8490 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 8490 by 100 and then divide the total by 2 as follows: (8490 x 100) / 2
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
424500
Therefore, the answer to "8490 is 2 percent of what number?" is 424500, and you can also derive that 2 percent of 424500 equals 8490.
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