16 is 4 percent of what number?
If you take 4 percent of a number and get 16, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 4 percent of a number is 16 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 16 by 100 and then divide the total by 4 as follows: (16 x 100) / 4
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
400
Therefore, the answer to "16 is 4 percent of what number?" is 400, and you can also derive that 4 percent of 400 equals 16.
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