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If there are 2,347,690 employees this year and it is a 43.7 percent increase from the previous year. What was the former number of employees?

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x*(143.7)/100 = 2347690
=> x= 2347690/1.437
=> 1633744 (app)
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let x be former number of employees
x*143.7/100=2347690
x=2347690*100/143.7
x= 1,633,744
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