The employees of a certain department of Company X currently constitute 22 percent of the employees of the company. If the company were to expand the department by adding 2 employees new to the company for every current employee of the department, the percent of the employees of Company X who would then be in this department would be closest to

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44%

46%

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52%

66%

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The employees of a certain department of company X constitute 22 percent of the employees of the company.

Assume the number of employees that the company has =

100

The number of employees that the department has =

22\% \text{ of } 100 = 22

If the company were to expand the department by adding 2 employees new to the company for every current employee of the department:

Number of new employees =

2 \times 22 = 44

The number of employees that the department has after the addition of 44 new employees =

22 + 44 = 66

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