SOLUTION: If there are 2,347,690 employees this year and it is a 43.7 percent increase from the previous year. What was the former number of employees?

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Question 207: If there are 2,347,690 employees this year and it is a 43.7 percent increase from the previous year. What was the former number of employees?
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43.7% increase means that the number of employees this year is 1.437 times the number of employees last year. That means that the number of employees last year was 1%2F1.437 times the number of employees this year, or 2347690%2F1.437, or 1633744 employee.