198 is 5 percent of what number?
If you take 5 percent of a number and get 198, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 5 percent of a number is 198 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 198 by 100 and then divide the total by 5 as follows: (198 x 100) / 5
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
3960
Therefore, the answer to "198 is 5 percent of what number?" is 3960, and you can also derive that 5 percent of 3960 equals 198.
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