9 is 8 percent of what number?
If you take 8 percent of a number and get 9, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 8 percent of a number is 9 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 9 by 100 and then divide the total by 8 as follows: (9 x 100) / 8
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
112.5
Therefore, the answer to "9 is 8 percent of what number?" is 112.5, and you can also derive that 8 percent of 112.5 equals 9.
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