Question

A company has recently been hiring new employees. today the company has 35% more employees than it did a year ago. if there are currently 37,800employees, how many employees did the company have a year ago?

Answer 1

28000 employee

Explanation:

let x be the number of the employees of the company ,a year ago.

the statement “today ,the company has 35% more employees than it did a year ago”

means

`x+(35)/(100) x=37800`

`\Longrightarrow x* \left( (100)/(100) +(35)/(100) \right) =37800`

`\Longrightarrow x* \left( (135)/(100) \right) =37800`

`\Longrightarrow x=(37800* 100)/(135)`

`\Longrightarrow x =28000`