1700 is 7 percent of what number?
If you take 7 percent of a number and get 1700, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 7 percent of a number is 1700 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 1700 by 100 and then divide the total by 7 as follows: (1700 x 100) / 7
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
24285.71
Therefore, the answer to "1700 is 7 percent of what number?" is 24285.71, and you can also derive that 7 percent of 24285.71 equals 1700.
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