Question 1168516
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.