Question

A company has recently been hiring new employees. Today the company has 38% more employees than it did a year ago. If there are currently 34,500 employees, how many employees did the company have a year ago?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer: A year ago, the company had 25000 employees

Explanation:

Let x represent the number of employees that the company had a year ago.

Today the company has 38% more employees than it did a year ago. This means that the number of employees that the company have today will be 38% of the number of employees that they had a year ago + the number of employees that they had a year ago.

If there are currently 34,500 employees, it means that

34500 = (38/100 × x ) + x

34500 = 0.38x + x = 1.38x

x = 34500/1.38 = 25000