document.write( "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? \n" ); document.write( "
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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. \n" ); document.write( "
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