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If you take 3 percent of a number and get 72, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 3 percent of a number is 72 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 72 by 100 and then divide the total by 3 as follows: (72 x 100) / 3

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

2400


Therefore, the answer to "72 is 3 percent of what number?" is 2400, and you can also derive that 3 percent of 2400 equals 72.

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