Question

In a recent year, 32.3% of all registered doctors were female. If there were 46,300 female registered doctors that year, what was the total number of

registered doctors?
Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

143,344

Explanation:

Let d represent the total number of registered doctors. The given relation is ...

0.323d = 46,300

Dividing by the coefficient of d, we get ...

d = 46,300/0.323 ≈ 143,343.7

The total number of registered doctors was about 143,344.