the current amount of employees today represents an increase of 26% from the previous year, this can be written as:
[tex]\begin{gathered} 1+26\% \\ 1+0.26 \\ 1.26 \end{gathered}[/tex]then,
[tex]44100=1.26x[/tex]where x is the number of employees the previous year, then, solve for x
[tex]\begin{gathered} x=\frac{44100}{1.26} \\ x=35000 \end{gathered}[/tex]Answer:
there were 35000 employees one year ago.
