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If you take 20 percent of a number and get 1, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 20 percent of a number is 1 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 1 by 100 and then divide the total by 20 as follows: (1 x 100) / 20

When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:

5


Therefore, the answer to "1 is 20 percent of what number?" is 5, and you can also derive that 20 percent of 5 equals 1.

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