Question

You find a female skeleton with a radius that measures 25.7 cm. How tall would this person have been in (meter)?

H= radius length x3.87 +73.50 (cm)
Group of answer choices

1.73 m

1.80

17. 3 m

1.67 m

Answer 1

1.73

Step-by-step explanation:

We know the radius length and the formula for height.

R= 25.7

H= R x 3.87 + 73.50

Plugging R into the equation for height we get:

(25.7)x(3.87) cm+(73.50) cm=H

Simplified: (99.459)cm+(73.50)cm =H

Simplified: 172.959cm=H

However, upon unit analysis we can see that this answer is in cm, whereas the answer is in m. We can use unit conversion to find this since 100cm=1m.

172.959 cm x (1 m/ 100 cm) = moving the decimal place two to the left= 1.72959 and when we round to three digits we get 1.73.

Thus, the answer is 1.73 meters.