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If you take 6 percent of a number and get 531, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 6 percent of a number is 531 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 531 by 100 and then divide the total by 6 as follows: (531 x 100) / 6

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

8850


Therefore, the answer to "531 is 6 percent of what number?" is 8850, and you can also derive that 6 percent of 8850 equals 531.

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