Question

A company has recently been hiring new employees. Today the company has 36% more employees than it did a year ago. If there are currently 51,000 employees, how many employees did the company have a year ago?

Answer 1

36% of 51,000 is 18,360, so 51,000 - 18,360 = 32,640

The company had 32,640 employees last year

Hope that helps

Answer 2

The company had 32,640 employees last year.