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5. A giraffe is twice as tall as its baby. The baby's height and the mother's height total 4.5m. How tall is the baby? How tall is the mother?​

User Mplwork
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Answer:

2.25

Explanation:

4.5 / 2

User Arun Pratap Singh
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Answer:

Explanation:

call x the mother deer, y the baby deer, we have x = 2y

x + y = 4,5 ---> x = 3, y = 3/2

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