Study the table given below carefully and answer the question that follow:…

Concept: A percentage of one quantity relative to another is computed as (Part ÷ Whole) × 100. In table-based Data Interpretation, when values are labelled "in hundreds", each entry must first be scaled by 100 to get the actual count, and a "total for a country in a year" means adding the Male and Female entries from that exact row — reading the wrong year or the wrong gender column is the most common source of error.

Application:

1. Female athlete count for Country E in 2009 = 9.2 (hundred) → actual count = 9.2 × 100 = 920.

2. Country B, 2008 row: Male = 11.4 (hundred), Female = 8.4 (hundred).

3. Total athletes from Country B in 2008 = (11.4 + 8.4) hundred = 19.8 hundred = 19.8 × 100 = 1980.

4. Required percentage = (920 ÷ 1980) × 100 = 46.4646...%.

5. Rounding to the nearest whole number (the question asks for an approximate value) gives 46%.

Cross-check: 46% of 1980 = 0.46 × 1980 = 910.8, close to 920, confirming the rounding is consistent. Also, since both the numerator and denominator were scaled by the same factor of 100 ("in hundreds"), the ratio 9.2/19.8 directly equals 920/1980 — confirming the percentage is scale-invariant and no unit-conversion error was introduced.