490 is 8 percent of what number?
If you take 8 percent of a number and get 490, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 8 percent of a number is 490 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 490 by 100 and then divide the total by 8 as follows: (490 x 100) / 8
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
6125
Therefore, the answer to "490 is 8 percent of what number?" is 6125, and you can also derive that 8 percent of 6125 equals 490.
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