The formula is weight divided by you height squared (that means your height
multiplied by your height).
Not exact matches
He asks, for example,»... is it really a coincidence that the
height of the pyramid of Cheops [in Egypt]
multiplied by a thousand million — 98 million miles — corresponds approximately to the distance between the earth and the sun?..
You could also calculate the area of the base (
by multiplying its length times its width in centimeters) and divide this
by the
height for each tower to get the ratio of base to
height.
One can think of the pulse as being like the earlier continuous wave (the «carrier wave»), with that wave's amplitude
multiplied by the changing
height of the envelope.
•
Multiply your body weight (in pounds)
by 4.54 •
Multiply your
height (in inches)
by 2.54 •
Multiply your age
by 5 • If you're a man, add the first two numbers and subtract the third one, then add 5; if you're a woman, add the first two numbers, subtract the third, then subtract 161.
Another quick and dirty way to calculate this figure is to take your
height in inches and
multiply it
by 1.5.
You can calculate your BMI
by multiplying your body weight in pounds
by 703, dividing
by your
height in inches and dividing
by your
height in inches again.
To find the area of a rectangle, for example, students would be given the appropriate formula —
multiply the width of the figure
by the
height — and then expected to practice similar problems on worksheets or homework.
For instance,
multiply the
height of the impulse wave
by 0.382.
Multiply the standard 224
height by 4 and you get 896, using only about 83 % of screen
height.
PaulS is partly right, you measure the
heights of the people in a room, then you
multiply the
heights of the Arabs
by the population of the Middle East, the average
height of the African Americans
by the population of Africa, you pretend that your one native American is a proxy for the inuit.
The most impressive part is where Postma (pages 20 - 21) derives the adiabatic lapse rate
by considering that the total energy of a parcel of air is the sum of its thermal energy (a function of its heat capacity
multiplied by its temperature in Kelvins) plus its potential energy (a function of its
height above the Surface).
Then,
multiply the repeat measurement
by the number of repeats you'll need to determine the working
height figure you must use.