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A certain company has 80 employees who are engineers. In this company engineers constitute 40% of its work force. How many people are employed in the company?

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According to question we can write
`:.40%` is = `80` employed
`:. 1%` is = `80/40` employers
`:. 100%` is = `80/40*100`
= `200` employers
Hence the total number of employers is `200`
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