Question

In a recent year, 22.8% of all registered doctors were female. If there were 49,900 female registered doctors that year,

what was the total number of registered doctors?

Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

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Answer 1

218,860

Explanation:

If you were to set up a proportion, you would set it up as 22.8/100 = 49,900/x. Then you would cross multiply the numbers to get that 22.8x = 4,990,000. Then you would divide 4,990,000 by 22.8 and get 21859.649122807. You want a whole number so the .6 would round the 9 up and you would get 218,860.