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If you take 50 percent of a number and get 299, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 50 percent of a number is 299 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 299 by 100 and then divide the total by 50 as follows: (299 x 100) / 50

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

598


Therefore, the answer to "299 is 50 percent of what number?" is 598, and you can also derive that 50 percent of 598 equals 299.

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