Percent and money managing

Question

A company has recently been hiring new employees. Today the company has 35%

 more employees than it did a year ago. If there are currently 35,100

 employees, how many employees did the company have a year ago? 

Answer 1

Let x = the number of employees a year ago

Then, .35(x) + x = 35,100 or 1.35x = 35,100 or x = 26,000 employees