296 is 20 percent of what number?
If you take 20 percent of a number and get 296, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 20 percent of a number is 296 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 296 by 100 and then divide the total by 20 as follows: (296 x 100) / 20
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
1480
Therefore, the answer to "296 is 20 percent of what number?" is 1480, and you can also derive that 20 percent of 1480 equals 296.
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