1170 is 20 percent of what number?
If you take 20 percent of a number and get 1170, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 20 percent of a number is 1170 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 1170 by 100 and then divide the total by 20 as follows: (1170 x 100) / 20
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
5850
Therefore, the answer to "1170 is 20 percent of what number?" is 5850, and you can also derive that 20 percent of 5850 equals 1170.
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