Question

In a recent year, 16.8% of all doctors were female. If there were 57,600 female registered doctors that year, what was the total number of registered doctors?Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

From the problem statement, we can say,

16.8% of total doctors is 57,600.

16.8% in decimal is

16.8/100 = 0.168

Let total number of doctos be "d", thus we can write the statement "16.8% of total doctors is 57,600" as >>>

`0.168\cdot d=57600`

Now, we can solve for "d", shown below:

`\begin{gathered} 0.168d=57600 \\ d=(57600)/(0.168) \\ d=342857.14 \end{gathered}`

Rounding to the nearest whole number,

Total Doctors = 342,857