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If you take 5 percent of a number and get 285, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 5 percent of a number is 285 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 285 by 100 and then divide the total by 5 as follows: (285 x 100) / 5

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

5700


Therefore, the answer to "285 is 5 percent of what number?" is 5700, and you can also derive that 5 percent of 5700 equals 285.

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