Question

An international company has 18,400 employees in one country. If this represents 34.7% of the company's employees, how many employees does it have in total?

Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

53,026 employees

Explanation:

We will write a proportion to solve this.

`(0.347)/(1) = (18,400)/(y)`

0.347y = 18,400 (which makes sense, since 18,400 is 34.7% of the total number of employees)

Divide by 0.347 to get y (the total number of employees) as 53025.9365994. Since you cannot have parts of a person, we round this to 53,026.

Answer 2

33.6% of X = 26800

X = 26800 / 33.6% = 26800 / 0.336 = 79762