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If you take 72 percent of a number and get 201, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 72 percent of a number is 201 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 201 by 100 and then divide the total by 72 as follows: (201 x 100) / 72

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

279.17


Therefore, the answer to "201 is 72 percent of what number?" is 279.17, and you can also derive that 72 percent of 279.17 equals 201.

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