138 is 5 percent of what number?
If you take 5 percent of a number and get 138, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 5 percent of a number is 138 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 138 by 100 and then divide the total by 5 as follows: (138 x 100) / 5
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
2760
Therefore, the answer to "138 is 5 percent of what number?" is 2760, and you can also derive that 5 percent of 2760 equals 138.
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