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If you take 40 percent of a number and get 242000, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 40 percent of a number is 242000 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 242000 by 100 and then divide the total by 40 as follows: (242000 x 100) / 40

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

605000


Therefore, the answer to "242000 is 40 percent of what number?" is 605000, and you can also derive that 40 percent of 605000 equals 242000.

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