Question

in a recent year, 34.8% of all registered doctors were female. if there were 56,500 female registered doctors that year, what was the total number of registered doctors? round answer to whole number.

Answer 1

Let's start by setting up a proportion:

34.8/100 = 56,500/x

where x is the total number of registered doctors.

To solve for x, we can cross-multiply:

34.8x = 100 * 56,500

34.8x = 5,650,000

x = 5,650,000/34.8

x ≈ 162,068

Therefore, the total number of registered doctors that year was approximately 162,068 (rounded to the nearest whole number).

Answer 2

162,356 doctors were registered that year.

Step-by-step explanation:

The questions says, "34.8% of all registered doctors are females"

(Consider, total number of registered doctors as
`x`)

that's,
`34.8\%` of
`x` are female.

and
`34.8\%` of
`x` is 56,500.

Mathematically,

`(34.8)/(100) * x=56500`

`x=56500*(100)/(34.8)`

`x=162356` doctors were registered that year.