100 is 42 percent of what number?
If you take 42 percent of a number and get 100, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 42 percent of a number is 100 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 100 by 100 and then divide the total by 42 as follows: (100 x 100) / 42
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
238.1
Therefore, the answer to "100 is 42 percent of what number?" is 238.1, and you can also derive that 42 percent of 238.1 equals 100.
What Number Calculator
Enter another problem below for us to solve: