Question

|||RATIOS, PROPORTIONS, AND PERCENTSFinding the original amount given the result of a percentage...Va o- httpemployeesA company has been forced to reduce its number of employees. Today the company has 28% fewer employees than it did a year ago. If there are currently306 employees, how many employees did the company have a year ago?I need help with this math problem

Answer 1

The amount of employees on the previous year represents 100%. If today the company has 28% fewer employees, then the current amount of employees represents:

`100\%-28\%=72\%`

72% of the amount of employees of the previous year. Rewritting this percentage as a decimal, we have:

`72\%=(72)/(100)=0.72`

If we divide the current amount of employees by 0.72, we're going to find the original amount.

`(306)/(0.72)=425`

The company had 425 employees on the previous year.