3500 is 70 percent of what number?
If you take 70 percent of a number and get 3500, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 70 percent of a number is 3500 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 3500 by 100 and then divide the total by 70 as follows: (3500 x 100) / 70
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
5000
Therefore, the answer to "3500 is 70 percent of what number?" is 5000, and you can also derive that 70 percent of 5000 equals 3500.
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