This is the concept of arithmetic, given that in a class, 46% of the population are women and the total number of women is 1717 women. The total number of students in the class will be given by:
(percentage of students in class)/(percentage of women)×(number of women)
given that the percentage of women has been calculated from total number of students, then the total number of students will be represented by 100%
therefore, the number of students will be:
100/46×1717
=3,732.6
since the actual number of people can't be expressed as percentage, then we shall round off our answer and our total will be:
3733 students.