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An international company has 18,200 employees in one country. If this represents 26.3% of the company's employees, how many employees does it have in total?Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

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Given:

An international company has 18,200 employees in one country.

It represents 26.3% of the company's employees.

Required:

To find the total number of employees in the company.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x be the total number of employees in the company.

Then


\begin{gathered} (26.3)/(100)* x=18200 \\ \\ x=18200*(100)/(26.3) \\ \\ x=69,201.5 \\ \\ x=69,202 \end{gathered}

Final Answer:

The total number of employees in the company is 69,202.

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