Question

In recent years, 23.8% of all registered doctors were female. If there were 57,800 female registered doctors that year, what was the total number of registered doctors?

Answer 1

57,800 is 23.8% of the total number of registered doctors.

To find out the number of registered doctors, we divide the number of female doctors by 23.8% as a decimal (which is just 0.238):

57,800 ÷ 0.238 = 242,857
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Answer:

So there are 242,857 registered doctors.