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A company has recently been hiring new employees. Today the company has 36% more employees than it did a year ago. If there are currently 51,000 employees, how many employees did the company have a year
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A company has recently been hiring new employees. Today the company has 36% more employees than it did a year ago. If there are currently 51,000 employees, how many employees did the company have a year ago?

A company has recently been hiring new employees. Today the company has 36% more employees-example-1
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The company had 32,640 employees last year.
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36% of 51,000 is 18,360, so 51,000 - 18,360 = 32,640

The company had 32,640 employees last year

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