Question

An international company has 28,200 employees in one country. If this represents 19.9% of the companies employees how many employees they have in total?

Answer 1

the total amount is "x", which oddly enough is 100%.

we also know that 28,200 is the 19.9%, so

`\begin{array}{ccll} amount&\%\\ \cline{1-2} x & 100\\ 28200& 19.9 \end{array} \implies \cfrac{x}{28200}~~=~~\cfrac{100}{19.9} \\\\\\ 19.9x=2820000\implies x=\cfrac{2820000}{19.9}\implies x\approx 141708`