8500 is 4 percent of what number?
If you take 4 percent of a number and get 8500, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 4 percent of a number is 8500 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 8500 by 100 and then divide the total by 4 as follows: (8500 x 100) / 4
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
212500
Therefore, the answer to "8500 is 4 percent of what number?" is 212500, and you can also derive that 4 percent of 212500 equals 8500.
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