43 is 25 percent of what number?
If you take 25 percent of a number and get 43, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 25 percent of a number is 43 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 43 by 100 and then divide the total by 25 as follows: (43 x 100) / 25
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
172
Therefore, the answer to "43 is 25 percent of what number?" is 172, and you can also derive that 25 percent of 172 equals 43.
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