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An international company has 26,900 employees in one country. If this represents 16.9% of the company's employees, how many employees does it have in total?

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89,349

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User Martijn Brouwer
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let's say they have "x" employees in total, so, that's the 100% of their workforce.

now, if we take "x" to be the 100%, and we know 26900 is 16.9%, what the dickens is "x" anyway?


\bf \begin{array}{ccll} amount&\%\\ \text{\textemdash\textemdash\textemdash}&\text{\textemdash\textemdash\textemdash}\\ x&100\\ 26900&16.9 \end{array}\implies \cfrac{x}{26900}=\cfrac{100}{16.9}\implies x=\cfrac{26900\cdot 100}{16.9}

now, you get a decimal figure, I take you need to round it up to a whole number.

the decimal result is likely due to any rounding up done to the 16.9.
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