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Some of the employees of Whitmore Corporation participate in the health insurance program. If 280 employees participate in the health insurance program and 70 employees do not, what is the total number of employees of Whitmore Corporation?

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Help please!

Some of the employees of Whitmore Corporation participate in the health insurance program. If 280 employees participate in the health insurance program and 70 employees do not, what is the total number of employees of Whitmore Corporation?

anonymous · Answer

Any idea how tofigure this out?

anonymous · Answer

No :( I've always been awful at math. It's become worse since I started doing online school

anonymous · Answer

280 employees participate
70 do not
so in order to find out how many employees total, what do you think you should do?

anonymous · Answer

Add the numbers

anonymous · Answer

yes

anonymous · Answer

what did you get?

anonymous · Answer

That was a lot more simple than I thought

anonymous · Answer

350 employees

anonymous · Answer

you just read it and assumed it was hard, 
correct, never let math make you nervous.  there is always someone on here to help