Question

In a recent year, 27.7% of all registered doctors were female. If there were 44,900 female registered doctors that year, what was the total number of registered doctors? Round your answer to the nearest whole number

Answer 1

We can use proportions to solve this problem.

Let's start by setting up a proportion:

female doctors/total doctors = 27.7%/100%

We can then substitute the values we know and solve for the total number of doctors:

44,900/x = 27.7%/100%

To solve for x, we can cross-multiply and simplify:

44,900 * 100% = x * 27.7%

449,000 = 0.277x

x = 449,000/0.277

x ≈ 1,621,464.33

Rounding this to the nearest whole number, we get:

The total number of registered doctors is about 1,621,464.