20% of city employees ride the bus to work. This is up 10% from last year. What percent of employees rode the bus to work last year? (Round to the tenth of a percentage.)

We know that currently 20% of city employees ride the bus to work. The problem states that there was a 10% increase from last year. To figure out this answer, we need to find out how much 10% of 20% is. Knowing what we know, lets now convert the percentages to decimals so we can do this math easier.

- 20% converted to a decimal is 0.2

- 10% converted to a decimal is 0.1

To find 10% of 20%, we simply multiply (0.2) x (0.1) which equals 0.02. In other terms, this is 2%. We now know that since last year, the percentage of city employees riding the bus went up 2%. This means that if we simply subtract 2 from 20 we get 18...

Last year, 18% of city employees rode the bus to work.

andromache andromache · Answer 2 · 2021-10-12T12:52:47+02:00

The percent of employees who rode the bus to work last year is 18.18%.

Given that,

There is 20% of city employees that ride the bus for work.
And, there is an increment of 10% from the last year.

Based on the above information, we assume that x% of city employees should ride the bus in the last year

So,

= x(100+10)÷ 100 - 20

x = 20 × 100 ÷ 110

= 200 ÷ 11

= 18.18%

Therefore we can conclude that the percent of employees who rode the bus to work last year is 18.18%.

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