429000 is 5 percent of what number?
If you take 5 percent of a number and get 429000, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 5 percent of a number is 429000 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 429000 by 100 and then divide the total by 5 as follows: (429000 x 100) / 5
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
8580000
Therefore, the answer to "429000 is 5 percent of what number?" is 8580000, and you can also derive that 5 percent of 8580000 equals 429000.
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