4 is 80 percent of what number?
If you take 80 percent of a number and get 4, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 80 percent of a number is 4 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 4 by 100 and then divide the total by 80 as follows: (4 x 100) / 80
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
5
Therefore, the answer to "4 is 80 percent of what number?" is 5, and you can also derive that 80 percent of 5 equals 4.
What Number Calculator
Enter another problem below for us to solve: