789 is 8 percent of what number?
If you take 8 percent of a number and get 789, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 8 percent of a number is 789 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 789 by 100 and then divide the total by 8 as follows: (789 x 100) / 8
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
9862.5
Therefore, the answer to "789 is 8 percent of what number?" is 9862.5, and you can also derive that 8 percent of 9862.5 equals 789.
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