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If you take 6 percent of a number and get 42, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 6 percent of a number is 42 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 42 by 100 and then divide the total by 6 as follows: (42 x 100) / 6

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

700


Therefore, the answer to "42 is 6 percent of what number?" is 700, and you can also derive that 6 percent of 700 equals 42.

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