Question

An international company has 27,300 employees in one country. If this represents 28.4% of the company's employees, how many employees does it have intotal?Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

We have the following information:

• An international company has 27,300 employees in one country, this represents 28.4% of the company's employees.

We need to determine the total number of employees of the international company.

To solve this exercise, we can follow the next steps:

1. Let x be the total number of employees of the international company. Then we have:

`\begin{gathered} 28.4\%x=27300 \\ \\ \text{ Then we have:} \\ \\ (28.4)/(100)x=27300 \\ \end{gathered}`

2. And now, to solve for x, we can multiply both sides by the reciprocal of 28.4/100 as follows:

`\begin{gathered} (100)/(28.4)*(28.4)/(100)x=(100)/(28.4)(\$27300) \\ \\ x=96126.7605634\approx96127\text{ \lparen rounded to the nearest whole number\rparen} \end{gathered}`

Therefore, in summary, the company has, in total, 96,127 employees.