240000 is 3 percent of what number?
If you take 3 percent of a number and get 240000, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 3 percent of a number is 240000 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 240000 by 100 and then divide the total by 3 as follows: (240000 x 100) / 3
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
8000000
Therefore, the answer to "240000 is 3 percent of what number?" is 8000000, and you can also derive that 3 percent of 8000000 equals 240000.
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