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If you take 79 percent of a number and get 420, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 79 percent of a number is 420 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 420 by 100 and then divide the total by 79 as follows: (420 x 100) / 79

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

531.65


Therefore, the answer to "420 is 79 percent of what number?" is 531.65, and you can also derive that 79 percent of 531.65 equals 420.

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