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Question 1168516: A company has recently been hiring new employees. Today the company has 29% more employees than it did a year ago. If there are currently 25,800 employees, how many employees did the company have a year ago?
Found 3 solutions by ikleyn, Theo, MathTherapy:
Answer by ikleyn(52803)   (Show Source):
Answer by Theo(13342)  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! let x - the amount of employees the company had one year ago.
29% is equal to .29
you get x + .29 * x = 25,800
factor out the x to get:
x * (1 + .29) = 25,000
simplify to get:
x * 1.29 = 25,000
divide both sides of the equation by 1.29 to get:
x = 25,000 / 1.29 = 19,379.84496.
round to the nearest whole employee and the answer is 19,380.
that's how many employees the company had 1 year ago.
19,380 * 1.29 = 25,000.2.
round to the nearest whole number and the number of employees this year is 25,000.
your solution is that the company had 19,380 employees last year.
Answer by MathTherapy(10552)  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A company has recently been hiring new employees. Today the company has 29% more employees than it did a year ago. If there are currently 25,800 employees, how many employees did the company have a year ago?
He's WRONG, yet again!! Is this person really SERIOUS?
I didn't know that you could have PART of a PERSON!! Ridiculous!!!
Let number of employees a year ago, be E
Then we get the following PROPORTION: 
1.29E = 25,800 ------ Cross-multiplying
Number of employees a year ago, or 
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