Question

A company has recently been hiring new employees. Today the company has 34% more employees than it did a year ago. If there are currently

33,500 employees, how many employees did the company have a year ago?

Answer 1

22110 employees.

Explanation:

33500 decrease 34% =

33500 × (1 - 34%) = 33500 × (1 - 0.34) = 22110

Answer 2

The company had 22,110 employees a year ago.

Explanation:

34% of 33,500 is 11,390

33,500 - 11,390 = 22,110