Question

A giraffe is twice as tall as its baby. The baby’s height and the mother’s height total 4.5 meters. How tall is the baby? How tall is the mother?

Answer 1

Answer:

Let the height of baby is x then height of giraffe is 2x

now given bbn both 4.5m

so x+2x=4.5

3x=4.5

therefore x=1.5

so baby is x=1.5m and mother is 2x=3.0m

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