Yesterday, 15 employees in an office were absent. If these absentees constitute 30% of the employees, what is the total number of employees?

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Answer 1 · 2018-01-13T19:05:52

#50# employees.

Say there are #x# employees in total, then

#"absentees" = 30/100 xx "employees"#

So

#30/100 xx x = 15#

which solves as

#x = 50#

Yesterday, 15 employees in an office were absent. If these absentees constitute 30% of the​ employees, what is the total number of​ employees?