How do you calculate a total from a percentage?

Question

For example - if 30% of a total is 1,509,000... What would the total be?

Answer 1

You divide the number by the percentage; say, if  30% of a total is 1,509,000, you divide1,509,000 by 30/100 and get 5,030,000

Answer 2

divide the percantage total by the %number...for example

1,509,000/0.30

Answer 3

  30 = 1509000

100 = X

1509000x100=30X

X=150900000:30

X=5030000

100% = 5030000

Answer 4

create a ratio

30/100 = 1509000/X

100 X 1509000 divided by 30 = X

Answer 5

Intuitively you can do this one in your head.

5 is 2% of what?  We now that 2% times 50 is 100%.  Multiply the known percentage by the supplimentary fraction.

5 times 50 is 250.

Here is another example.

7 is 14% of what number?  

7 is to 14 as what is to 100? The equation is 7 times 100 divided by 14.

700/14 is 50.

Answer 6

Since percentages are always out of hundred, i.e 30% would be 30/100,  s0 when calculating a numbers percentage the formula would be

(1509000/30 )*100  

Answer 7

U divide 1509000 by 30% to get 5030000