A company recently downsized its number of employees by 25%. If there are still 105 ?employees, how many employees were there prior to the? layoffs?

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Answer 1

To answer this question, you need to understand what you are looking for, which is the number of employees before downsizing.  Let's call that x.  Also you need to understand that if you are downsizing by 25%, then there are 75% of the original number of employees left.  

 

Therefore you can set up the problem as:  75% of x = 105.  Solve:  0.75x =105 = 140

 

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