Question

A manufacturing company with 450 employees begins a new product line and must increase their number of employees by 18 percent. How many total employees does the company now have?

Answer 1

531 employees

Explanation:

A manufacturing company with 450 employees begins a new product line and must increase their number of employees by 18 percent. Note that

450 employees - 100%

x employees - 18%.

Mathematically, you can write proportion:

`(450)/(x)=(100)/(18),\\ \\x=(450\cdot 18)/(100)=81.`

The new number of employees is

`450+81=531.`