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An international company has 17,400 employees in one country. If this represents 16.7% of the company's employees, how many employees does it have in total?

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Answer:

About 104191 employees.

Explanation:

You can solve this by setting up an equation. If x is the total number of employees, then you can express this situation as:

0.167(x)=17400


x=(17400)/(0.167)\approx 104191 employees. Hope this helps!

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