Of the 3,600 employees of Company X, 1/3 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? Answers
A) 25%	B) 28.1%	C) 20%	D) 12.5%	E) 11.1%
Welcome, just post the question and the choices   Let's see, the way I did it was   1/3 are clerical out of 3600 so 1200 are clerical   1200 reduced by 1/4 is 1200*1/4   so it reduced 300 people , so there is 900 clerical people left   but since 300 people left, it also reduced from the total of 3600 so there are 3300 people total   since 900 clerical left / 3200 people total   Answer : 28.1%
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Of the 3,600 employees of Company X, 1/3 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?