72 is 6 percent of what number?
If you take 6 percent of a number and get 72, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 6 percent of a number is 72 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 72 by 100 and then divide the total by 6 as follows: (72 x 100) / 6
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
1200
Therefore, the answer to "72 is 6 percent of what number?" is 1200, and you can also derive that 6 percent of 1200 equals 72.
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