Question

In a recent year, 26.4% of all registered doctors were female. If there were 59,600 female registered doctors that year, what was the total number of registerdoctors?Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

The given information is:

26.4% of all registered doctors were female

There were 59,600 female registered doctors (this is 26.4% of the total registered doctors).

Then to know what was the total number of registered doctors:

`59600*\frac{100\text{ \%}}{26.4\text{ \%}}=225758`

Answer: There were 225,758 total registered doctors that year.