52 is 20 percent of what number?
If you take 20 percent of a number and get 52, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 20 percent of a number is 52 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 52 by 100 and then divide the total by 20 as follows: (52 x 100) / 20
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
260
Therefore, the answer to "52 is 20 percent of what number?" is 260, and you can also derive that 20 percent of 260 equals 52.
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