Question

A company has determined that it must increase production of a certain line of goods by 112 times last years production. The new output will be 2885 items. What was last year's output?

Answer 1

Answer: 26 items

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x denotes the last year's output.

Given : A company has determined that it must increase production of a certain line of goods by 112 times last years production.

The new output will be 2885 items.

According to the above statement we have the following equation :-

$112x=2885$

Divide both sides by 112, we get

$x=25.7589285714\approx26$

Hence, the  last year's output =26 items