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If you take 42 percent of a number and get 318, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 42 percent of a number is 318 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 318 by 100 and then divide the total by 42 as follows: (318 x 100) / 42

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

757.14


Therefore, the answer to "318 is 42 percent of what number?" is 757.14, and you can also derive that 42 percent of 757.14 equals 318.

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