to solve this, question, we would have to convert the percentage to fractions or decimals.
Let x represent the numbers of employees the had a year ago
[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{29}{100}\times x=355 \\ 0.29x=355 \\ \text{divide both sides by the coefficient of x} \\ \frac{0.29x}{0.29}=\frac{355}{0.29} \\ x=1224.127 \\ x\approx1224 \end{gathered}[/tex]a year ago, the company had 1224 empolyees
