Question

An international company has 16,300 employees in one country. If this represents 23.4% of the company’s employees, how many employees does it have in total? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

`69,658\ employees`

Explanation:

we know that

16,300 employees represent 23.4%

so

using proportion

Find out how many employees represent 100% (total employees of the company)

Let

x -----> total employees of the company

`(16,300)/(23.4\%)=(x)/(100\%)\\\\x=16,300(100)/23.4\\\\x=69,658\ employees`