42 is 4 percent of what number?
If you take 4 percent of a number and get 42, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 4 percent of a number is 42 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 42 by 100 and then divide the total by 4 as follows: (42 x 100) / 4
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
1050
Therefore, the answer to "42 is 4 percent of what number?" is 1050, and you can also derive that 4 percent of 1050 equals 42.
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