Question

In a recent year, 27.4% of all registered doctors were female. If there were 55,600 female registered doctors that year, what was the total number of registered doctors?

Answer 1

The total number of registered doctors is 202,920 rounded.

Explanation:

Solve for (x) in this equation: 27.4/100 = 55,600/(x)

You will get the following equation: (x)= (100*55,600) / (27.4) which equals 202,919.708 rounded to 202,920

To double check, you can see that 27.4% of the total given (202,920) equals the 55,600.