Question

An international company has 18,200 employees in one country. If this represents 26.3% of the company's employees, how many employees does it have in total?Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

Given:

An international company has 18,200 employees in one country.

It represents 26.3% of the company's employees.

Required:

To find the total number of employees in the company.

Explanation:

Let x be the total number of employees in the company.

Then

$\begin{gathered} \frac{26.3}{100}\times x=18200 \\ \\ x=18200\times\frac{100}{26.3} \\ \\ x=69,201.5 \\ \\ x=69,202 \end{gathered}$

Final Answer:

The total number of employees in the company is 69,202.