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.
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?
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