An international company has 27,200 employees in one country. If this represents 18.6% of the company's employees, how many employees does it have in total?

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Answer 1

You can work this problem as a proportion.

n = total number of employees

27,200 / n = 18.6 / 100

n = 27,200 (100 / 18.6) = ?