16 is 8 percent of what number?
If you take 8 percent of a number and get 16, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 8 percent of a number is 16 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 16 by 100 and then divide the total by 8 as follows: (16 x 100) / 8
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
200
Therefore, the answer to "16 is 8 percent of what number?" is 200, and you can also derive that 8 percent of 200 equals 16.
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