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Yahoo in Sunnyside currently has a staff of 6200 employees. Next month Yahoo will decrease its staff by 8%. How many people will be employed by Yahoo next month.

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Given in the question:

a.) Yahoo in Sunnyside currently has a staff of 6200 employees.

b.) Next month Yahoo will decrease its staff by 8%.

To be able to get how many people will be employed by Yahoo next month, we will be using this formula:


\text{Employed Next Month = (Current No. of Staff) x (Remaining Percentage of Employed)}

We get,


\text{Employed Next Month = (6,200) x (}\frac{\text{100\% - 8\%}}{100\text{\%}}\text{)}
\text{Employed Next Month = (6,200) x (}\frac{92\text{\%}}{100\text{\%}}\text{)}
\text{Employed Next Month = (6,200) x (}0.92\text{)}
\text{Employed Next Month = }5,704

Therefore, there will be 5,704 people employed by Yahoo next month.

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