A company has been forced to reduce its number of employees. today the company has 33% fewer employees that it did a year ago. If there are currently 268 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.

Since the company has 33% fewer employees than it did a year ago, the number of employees currently is 67% of the number of employees a year ago:

0.67x = 268
x = 268 / 0.67
x = 400

Therefore, the company had 400 employees a year ago.