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If you take 6 percent of a number and get 462, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 6 percent of a number is 462 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 462 by 100 and then divide the total by 6 as follows: (462 x 100) / 6

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

7700


Therefore, the answer to "462 is 6 percent of what number?" is 7700, and you can also derive that 6 percent of 7700 equals 462.

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