Round your answer to the nearest whole number

Question

An international company has 15,100 employees in one country. If this represents 24.7% of the company's employees, how many employees does it have in total?

Answer 1

Hello Hailey,

To first find the official answer to this exercise, carry out the very valuable formula:

is = %

of 100

Now ask yourself, "15,100 is 24.7% of what number?"

Subsequently, plug in 15,100 for "is", 24.7% for "%", and the unknown variable x for "of" in the given formula, and cross-multiply.

15,100 x 100 = 151,000

24.7 x X = 24.7x

Your new equation now appears as: 24.7x = 151,000

Now divide both sides of the equation by 24.7 to find your (initial) answer.

24.7 x 151,000

24.7 24.7

x = 6,113.36

When rounded to the nearest whole number, your final answer is 6,114 (since you can't have .36 worth of a whole person).

Answer 2

x total employees

15100 = 24% of x

151000 = 0.24 x

x = 62916.67 ~ 62917