Of the 3,600 employees of Company X, 1/3 are clerical. If the clerical staff were to be reduced by 1/6, what percent of the total number of the remaining employees would then be clerical?
Choices.
A) 25%  B) 22.2%  C) 20%  D) 29.4%  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 1/6 is 1200*1/6   so it reduced 200 people , so there is 1000 clerical people left   but since 200 people left, it also reduced from the total of 3600 so there are 3400 people total   since 1000clerical left / 3400 people total   you get (A) 29.4%   Answer : 29.4%
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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 1/6, what percent of the total number of the remaining employees would then be clerical?