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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.

Respuesta :

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!

musiclover10045

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


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

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