Problem: of the 3,600 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 ?
Rationale: 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 %
annotated_formula: multiply(divide(multiply(divide(12, 25), subtract(1, divide(1, 4))), add(multiply(divide(12, 25), subtract(1, divide(1, 4))), subtract(const_1, divide(12, 25)))), const_100)