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20% means 20/100

Hence its reciprocal is 100/20 = 10/2 = 5

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20% = 1/5 = 2/10 = ... = k/(5k), for some constant k.

The reciprocal of k/(5k) is (5k)/k = 5/1.

Therefore the reciprocal of 20% is 500%.

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