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If you take 8 percent of a number and get 3, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 8 percent of a number is 3 and you want to know what that initial number is.

To solve this problem you multiply 3 by 100 and then divide the total by 8 as follows: (3 x 100) / 8

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

37.5


Therefore, the answer to "3 is 8 percent of what number?" is 37.5, and you can also derive that 8 percent of 37.5 equals 3.

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