An international company has 19,200 employees in one country. If this represents 18.1% of the company's employees, how many employees does it have in total?

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Answer 1

Let x represent the number of employees the company has in total.

Then 18.1% OF that amount is represented by 0.181 x (convert 18.1% to a decimal, then multiply times x.

The equation to solve is:

0.181 x = 19200 (that is 19200 IS 18.1% OF the number of employees.

To solve for x divide both sides of the equation by 0.181.

x = 19200/0.181

The equation could also have been written as:

181/1000 (x) = 19200

x = 19200 (1000)/ 181

x ≈ 106,077