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In a recent year, 34.8% of all registered doctors were female.If there were 43,100 female registered doctors that year, what was the total number of registered doctors?

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Let the total # of reg. docs. be t. Then 0348t = 43100. Solve this for t:
43100 docs
t = ------------------- = 123,851 (rounded up from 123850.57)
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