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The problem states that the company currently has 46,500 employees, which is 24% more than what it had a year ago. The goal is to find out how many employees the company had a year ago.

Let's denote the number of employees the company had a year ago as \( x \). According to the information provided:

\[
46,500 = x + 0.24x
\]

This can be simplified as:

\[
46,500 = 1.24x
\]

Now, solving for \( x \):

\[
x = \frac{46,500}{1.24}
\]

Let me calculate that for you.The company had 37,500 employees a year ago.

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Here are 5 related questions to expand your understanding:
1. If the company hires 15% more employees next year, how many employees will it have?
2. How much did the company's workforce increase by over the past year in terms of the number of employees?
3. If the company grows by 30% in two years, how many employees will there be after the second year?
4. What would the percentage increase be if the company grows to 50,000 employees in the next few years?
5. How long will it take to reach 60,000 employees if the company keeps increasing its workforce by 10% each year?

**Tip:** When working with percentage increases, it's useful to express the growth factor as \(1 + \text{percentage increase}\), and apply this to the original amount to simplify calculations.

Una compañía ha estado contratando empleados nuevos recientemente. Hoy la compañía tiene 24% más empleados de lo que tenía hace un año. Si actualmente hay 46,500 empleados, ¿cuántos empleados tenía la compañía hace un año?

Learn how to calculate the original number of employees a company had a year ago, given a 24% increase to the current total of 46,500 employees. This problem involves basic algebra and percentage increase concepts, ideal for students in Grades 7-9.

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