### Instruction: One night 17 percent of the female officers on a police force were on duty. If 170 police officers were on duty that night and half of these were female officers, how many female officers were on the police force?
Answer Choices: (A) 400 (B) 420 (C) 450 (D) 480 (E) 500 Let's write a Python program to solve it.### Response: # number of female officers on duty
female_on_duty = 170 / 2
# total number of female officers
total_female = female_on_duty / 0.17
print(total_female)