Business Mathematics Brief 12th Edition by Stanley Salzman ,Gary Clendenen, Charles Miller

Exercise 215

Solve for base in the following application problems. (See Examples 2 and 3.)
COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY LAYOFFS Telecommunications equipment maker Nortel Networks says it will lay off 4000 workers globally. If this amounts to 4 of its total workforce, how many workers will remain after the layoffs? ( Source: Nortel Networks.)