A company has been forced to reduce its number of employees. Today the company has 29% fewer employees than it did a year ago. If there are currently 284 employees, how many employees did the company have a year ago? Demployees

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A: Applying the concept of future value of money we can obtain the answer to this question.

Q: A local park had a population of 76 squirrels in 2008, if the population grows 29% every 2 years.…

A: Given :Population of squirrels in 2008= 76Incresed rate in 2 years = 29 %

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Q: 2020, the population of Ethiopia was 1.65 times as large as the population of Thailand. We can also…

A: Given query is to find the population of Ethiopia in terms of percentage of population of Thailand.

Q: Judy's Jeans Jamboree sold 1,500 jeans in the month of January. In the month of February they…

A: The number of jeans sold in the month of January is 1500.

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Q: In 2015, americans spent 823 million on easter candy. A.) if easter candy sales made up only 2.5%…

A: Let x millions be the amount spent on candy by American in 2015. According to given condition.…

Q: A country club waiter earns $8.80 per hour plus tips of at least 15% of the restaurant tab from each…

A: In an hour waiter will get $8.80. so for the entire 8 hour shift he will get $(8×8.80) . Total…

Q: 48% of the students who applied received a scholarship.   If 408 students received a scholarship,…

A: 48% of the students who applied received a scholarship. If 408 students received a scholarship,…

Q: Mr Hudson, the principal at Hoover High School, counted 31 seniors absent on Senior Skip Day. if…

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Q: Jerry and Mitch both invest $25,000 into a fund. Jerry is told he will earn $770 a year in interest.…

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Q: There are 127 pink plastic flamingos in your gramma's yard. Her collection increases gradually by…

A: Pink plastic flamingos initially=127 Annual increase=15% Time =6years

Q: 68% of the parts were defective. The total of all parts was 1780. How many were defective?

A: Answer: 1)  Given, Total parts=1780   Defective parts in Percentage = 68%    We have to find a…

Q: Text Messages In the first month of 2016 about 0.6 trillion text messages were sent. The number of…

A: Text Messages In the first month of 2016 about 0.6 trillion text messages were sent.  Text message…

Q: For 25 years, you deposited $4500 each year into an investment account that earned 6.5% interest.…

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Q: city water tank holds 20 gallons of water. A technician empties 25% of the tank. How many more…

A: Correct Question: the city water tank holds 20 gallons of water. A technician empties 25% of the…

Q: Pinnacle Consultants earned a profit of $26,875 during its first year of business, and the company’s…

A: Second year's profit is the sum of the first year's profit and 8% of the first year's profit.

Q: n 2020, a total of 2.2 million electric vehicles were sold in the U.S. Tesla had a market share of…

A: To calculate the number of vehicles sold by Tesla in 2020. Given that: Total number of vehicles…

Q: In last year's election,165,240 people voted. This was a decrease of 10% from the previous year. How…

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Q: The population of Canada grew 2% in 2019. If the population in 2019 was 37.59 million people, what…

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Q: In 2008, 870 students signed up for the town soccer program. This was 125% of the number who signed…

A: The answer is 696.

Q: In the 2000 U.S. Census, a small city had a population of 40,000. By the 2010, the population had…

A: Let the population of city at time t be:  y(t)

Q: 10 mice live in a wall in an old farmhouse. This is only 20 % of the total mice around the…

A: Given data: The numbers of mice in the old farmhouse are n=10. The percentage of mice in the old…

Unitary Method

The word “unitary” comes from the word “unit”, which means a single and complete entity. In this method, we find the value of a unit product from the given number of products, and then we solve for the other number of products. 

Speed, Time, and Distance

Imagine you and 3 of your friends are planning to go to the playground at 6 in the evening. Your house is one mile away from the playground and one of your friends named Jim must start at 5 pm to reach the playground by walk. The other two friends are 3 miles away.

Profit and Loss

The amount earned or lost on the sale of one or more items is referred to as the profit or loss on that item.

Units and Measurements

Measurements and comparisons are the foundation of science and engineering. We, therefore, need rules that tell us how things are measured and compared. For these measurements and comparisons, we perform certain experiments, and we will need the experiments to set up the devices.