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If you take 40 percent of a number and get 2, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 40 percent of a number is 2 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 2 by 100 and then divide the total by 40 as follows: (2 x 100) / 40

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

5


Therefore, the answer to "2 is 40 percent of what number?" is 5, and you can also derive that 40 percent of 5 equals 2.

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