A company has recently been hiring new employees. Today the company has 38% more employees than it did a year ago. If there are currently 34500 employees, how many employees did the company have a year ago?

Solution

Solution

Amount before addition : 25000

Solution steps

Translate the problem into an equation:

34500 = x + 0.38 x

34500 = x + 0.38 x : x = 25000

Amount before addition : 25000

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