document.write( "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?
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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?
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\n" ); document.write( "Let number of employees a year ago, be E
\n" ); document.write( "Then we get the following PROPORTION: \"matrix%281%2C3%2C+1.29%2F%2225%2C800%22%2C+%22=%22%2C+1%2FE%29\"
\n" ); document.write( "1.29E = 25,800 ------ Cross-multiplying
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