4000 is 8 percent of what number?
If you take 8 percent of a number and get 4000, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 8 percent of a number is 4000 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 4000 by 100 and then divide the total by 8 as follows: (4000 x 100) / 8
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
50000
Therefore, the answer to "4000 is 8 percent of what number?" is 50000, and you can also derive that 8 percent of 50000 equals 4000.
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