A adult elephant measure 15.5 ft from nose to tail & the length of its foot is 12.2inch. What is the approximate distance from a baby elephants nose to tail

Question

Proportional math problem.

Answer 1

More information is needed. However, with this problem, the question will likely give a proportion of the baby to the adult elephant. For this, I am going to say the baby is 1/4 the size of the adult.

I would convert the feet to inches:

15.5 x 12 = 186 inches.

To solve this, we will use the following equation:

186 x 1/4 = 46.5 inches.

Now we convert this back to feet.

46.6 inches x 1 ft/ 12 in = 3.9 feet.