document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1168516>Question 1168516</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> 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?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #793087 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=Theo><B>Theo(13342)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=Theo><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/cgi-bin/show-face.mpl?user=Theo><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=793087\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> let x - the amount of employees the company had one year ago.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "29% is equal to .29\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "you get x + .29 * x = 25,800\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "factor out the x to get:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x * (1 + .29) = 25,000\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "simplify to get:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x * 1.29 = 25,000\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "divide both sides of the equation by 1.29 to get:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x = 25,000 / 1.29 = 19,379.84496.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "round to the nearest whole employee and the answer is 19,380.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "that's how many employees the company had 1 year ago.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "19,380 * 1.29 = 25,000.2.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "round to the nearest whole number and the number of employees this year is 25,000.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "your solution is that the company had 19,380 employees last year.\r<BR>\n" );
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