Question

*HELP PLEASE*

In a recent year, 29.6% of all registered doctors were female. If there were 46,600 female registered doctors that year, what was the total of registered doctors? ROUND YOUR ANSWER TO THE NEAREST WHOLE NUMBER.

Answer 1

Ok so first you write out the proportions

29.6 46,600

——— = —————

100 x

Then we cross multiply.

29.6x = 4,660,000

Then we multiply both sides by 10 to clear the decimal.

296x = 46,600,000

Then we dived each side by 296

x = 157,432.432432432432

Basically since you can’t have .432432432432 of a doctor, you would just write your answer as

157,432 doctors

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Divide the number of female doctors by the percentage to find total.

46, 600 / 0.296 = 157,432 total doctors.