Question

A company has been forced to reduce its number of employees. Today the company has
35%
fewer employees than it did a year ago. If there are currently
169
employees, how many employees did the company have a year ago?

Answer 1

Let x be the number of employees the company had a year ago.

According to the problem, the company currently has 35% fewer employees than it did a year ago. This means that the current number of employees is 65% of what it was a year ago.

In other words,

0.65x = 169

To solve for x, we can divide both sides by 0.65:

x = 169 / 0.65

x ≈ 260.

Therefore, the company had approximately 260 employees a year ago.