of the 3,600 employees of company x, 12 / 25 are clerical. if the clerical staff were to be reduced by 1 / 4, what percent of the total number of the remaining employees would then be clerical? Choose the correct answer:
A) 40 %  B) 22.2 %  C) 20 %  D) 12.5 %  E) 11.1 %
<gadget id="calculator">12 / 25</gadget>
<output>12/25 = around 0.48</output>

<gadget id="calculator">1 / 4</gadget>
<output>1/4 = around 0.25</output>

<gadget id="calculator">1 - (1/4)</gadget>
<output>3/4 = around 0.75</output>

<gadget id="calculator">(12/25) * (3/4)</gadget>
<output>9/25 = around 0.36</output>

<gadget id="calculator">1 - (12/25)</gadget>
<output>13/25 = around 0.52</output>

<gadget id="calculator">(9/25) + (13/25)</gadget>
<output>22/25 = around 0.88</output>

<gadget id="calculator">(9/25) / (22/25)</gadget>
<output>9/22 = around 0.409091</output>

<gadget id="calculator">(9/22) * 100</gadget>
<output>450/11 = around 40.909091</output>

<result>A</result>
of the 3,600 employees of company x, 12 / 25 are clerical. if the clerical staff were to be reduced by 1 / 4, what percent of the total number of the remaining employees would then be clerical?
multiply(divide(multiply(divide(12, 25), subtract(1, divide(1, 4))), add(multiply(divide(12, 25), subtract(1, divide(1, 4))), subtract(const_1, divide(12, 25)))), const_100)
let ' s see , the way i did it was 12 / 25 are clerical out of 3600 so 1728 are clerical 1728 reduced by 1 / 4 is 1728 * 1 / 4 so it reduced 432 people , so there is 1296 clerical people left but since 432 people left , it also reduced from the total of 3600 so there are 3168 people total since 1296 clerical left / 3168 people total you get ( a ) 40 %