6990 is 5 percent of what number?
If you take 5 percent of a number and get 6990, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 5 percent of a number is 6990 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 6990 by 100 and then divide the total by 5 as follows: (6990 x 100) / 5
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
139800
Therefore, the answer to "6990 is 5 percent of what number?" is 139800, and you can also derive that 5 percent of 139800 equals 6990.
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