4720 is 8 percent of what number?
If you take 8 percent of a number and get 4720, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 8 percent of a number is 4720 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 4720 by 100 and then divide the total by 8 as follows: (4720 x 100) / 8
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
59000
Therefore, the answer to "4720 is 8 percent of what number?" is 59000, and you can also derive that 8 percent of 59000 equals 4720.
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