980 is 80 percent of what number?
If you take 80 percent of a number and get 980, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 80 percent of a number is 980 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 980 by 100 and then divide the total by 80 as follows: (980 x 100) / 80
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
1225
Therefore, the answer to "980 is 80 percent of what number?" is 1225, and you can also derive that 80 percent of 1225 equals 980.
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