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If you take 4 percent of a number and get 55, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 4 percent of a number is 55 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 55 by 100 and then divide the total by 4 as follows: (55 x 100) / 4

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

1375


Therefore, the answer to "55 is 4 percent of what number?" is 1375, and you can also derive that 4 percent of 1375 equals 55.

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