124 is 5 percent of what number?
If you take 5 percent of a number and get 124, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 5 percent of a number is 124 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 124 by 100 and then divide the total by 5 as follows: (124 x 100) / 5
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
2480
Therefore, the answer to "124 is 5 percent of what number?" is 2480, and you can also derive that 5 percent of 2480 equals 124.
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