491 is 8 percent of what number?
If you take 8 percent of a number and get 491, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 8 percent of a number is 491 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 491 by 100 and then divide the total by 8 as follows: (491 x 100) / 8
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
6137.5
Therefore, the answer to "491 is 8 percent of what number?" is 6137.5, and you can also derive that 8 percent of 6137.5 equals 491.
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