25 is 9 percent of what number?
If you take 9 percent of a number and get 25, then what is that number? In other words, you know that 9 percent of a number is 25 and you want to know what that initial number is.
To solve this problem you multiply 25 by 100 and then divide the total by 9 as follows: (25 x 100) / 9
When we put that into our calculator, we get the following answer:
277.78
Therefore, the answer to "25 is 9 percent of what number?" is 277.78, and you can also derive that 9 percent of 277.78 equals 25.
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