A Percent question.

Question

An international company has 24,900

 employees in one country. If this represents 32.3%

 of the company's employees, how many employees does it have in total?

Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

When determining the percent of a number, you can multiply the number by the percent written in decimal form. For example, 32% of 50 would be calculated by :

0.32 * 50 = 16

Therefore, 16 is equal to 32% of 50.

In your problem, we know the part that the percent of the total represents and need to determine the total. Let's have x represent the total number of employees in the company.

Recall that 32.3% can be written in decimal form as 0.323. Then :

0.323 * x = 24900

If you divide 24900 by 0.323 , you can find the total or x.

24900/0.323 = 77090 total employees (after rounding to the nearest whole number).