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If you take 25 percent of a number and get 259, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 25 percent of a number is 259 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 259 by 100 and then divide the total by 25 as follows: (259 x 100) / 25

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

1036


Therefore, the answer to "259 is 25 percent of what number?" is 1036, and you can also derive that 25 percent of 1036 equals 259.

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