of the 3600 employees of company x , 12 / 25 are clerical . if the clerical staff were to be reduced by 1 / 4 , what percent of the total number of the remaining employees would then be clerical ?
let ' s see , the way i did it was 12 / 25 are clerical out of 3600 so 1728 are clerical 1728 reduced by 1 / 4 is 1728 * 1 / 4 so it reduced 432 people , so there is 1296 clerical people left but since 432 people left , it also reduced from the total of 3600 so there are 3168 people total since 1296 clerical left / 3168 people total you get ( a ) 40 %
multiply(divide(subtract(divide(multiply(3600, 12), 25), divide(divide(multiply(3600, 12), 25), 4)), subtract(3600, divide(divide(multiply(3600, 12), 25), 4))), const_100)