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?
<pre><b>He's WRONG, yet again!!</b> Is this person really SERIOUS?
 
I didn't know that you could have PART of a PERSON!! Ridiculous!!!</pre><pre>
Let number of employees a year ago, be E
Then we get the following PROPORTION: {{{matrix(1,3, 1.29/"25,800", "=", 1/E)}}} 
1.29E = 25,800 ------ Cross-multiplying
Number of employees a year ago, or {{{highlight_green(matrix(1,5, E, "=", "25,800"/1.29, "=", "20,000"))}}}