87 is 2 percent of what number?
If you take 2 percent of a number and get 87, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 2 percent of a number is 87 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 87 by 100 and then divide the total by 2 as follows: (87 x 100) / 2
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
4350
Therefore, the answer to "87 is 2 percent of what number?" is 4350, and you can also derive that 2 percent of 4350 equals 87.
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