27 is 3 percent of what number?
If you take 3 percent of a number and get 27, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 3 percent of a number is 27 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 27 by 100 and then divide the total by 3 as follows: (27 x 100) / 3
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
900
Therefore, the answer to "27 is 3 percent of what number?" is 900, and you can also derive that 3 percent of 900 equals 27.
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