Question

The columbus zoo has 2 elephants. Bodhi, the baby elepbobhant, is 3 feet tall. bodhi is 6 feet shorter than his dad, coco. Write and solve a subtraction equation to find out how tall coco is.

Answer 1

Coco is 9 feet tall.

Explanation:

Given:

The columbus zoo has 2 elephants. Bodhi, the baby elephant, is 3 feet tall. Bodhi is 6 feet shorter than his dad, Coco.

Now, to find the height of Coco.

Let the height of Coco be
`x.`

And the height of Bodhi is 3 feet.

As given, Bodhi is 6 feet shorter than his dad, Coco.

Now, to get the height of Coco we write and solve an equation:

`x-6=3`

Adding both sides by 6 we get:

`x=9\ feet.`

The height of Coco = 9 feet.

Therefore, Coco is 9 feet tall.