of the 3,600 employees of company x , 1 / 3 are clerical . if the clerical staff were to be reduced by 1 / 3 , what percent of the total number of the remaining employees would then be clerical ?
"let ' s see , the way i did it was 1 / 3 are clerical out of 3600 so 1200 are clerical 1200 reduced by 1 / 3 is 1200 * 1 / 3 so it reduced 400 people , so there is 800 clerical people left but since 400 people left , it also reduced from the total of 3600 so there are 3200 people total since 800 clerical left / 3200 people total you get ( a ) 25 %"
multiply(divide(multiply(divide(1, 3), subtract(1, divide(1, 3))), add(multiply(divide(1, 3), subtract(1, divide(1, 3))), subtract(1, divide(1, 3)))), const_100)