of the 3,600 employees of company x , 3 / 4 are clerical . if the clerical staff were to be reduced by 4 / 5 , what percent of the total number of the remaining employees would then be clerical ?
"let ' s see , the way i did it was 3 / 4 are clerical out of 3600 so 2700 are clerical 2700 reduced by 4 / 5 is 2700 * 4 / 5 so it reduced 2160 people , so there is 540 clerical people left but since 2160 people left , it also reduced from the total of 3600 so there are 1440 people total since 540 clerical left / 1440 people total you get ( a ) 37 %"
multiply(divide(multiply(divide(3, 4), subtract(4, divide(4, 5))), add(multiply(divide(3, 4), subtract(4, divide(4, 5))), subtract(4, divide(3, 4)))), const_100)