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If you take 21 percent of a number and get 85, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 21 percent of a number is 85 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 85 by 100 and then divide the total by 21 as follows: (85 x 100) / 21

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

404.76


Therefore, the answer to "85 is 21 percent of what number?" is 404.76, and you can also derive that 21 percent of 404.76 equals 85.

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