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Old 03-08-2006, 10:47 AM   #8
Ze'Manel Cunha
 
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Default Re: Calculating Weight in Relation to Height

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Originally Posted by whswhs
If you're assuming height and weight change within a single species, Homo sapiens, you might want to use the BMI. You convert height to meters (or take height in meters, if you're not an American); square it; and multiply by the BMI, where 25 is a typical value for humans. Weight increases as the square of height. So you have a height increase by a factor of 7/6; you take weight increase as the square of that: 200 x (7/6) x (7/6) = 272.
That is both better written and clearer than what I said.
(I definitely need to work on my clarity, possibly my tact too, though I don't know why a clinical observation would be taken the wrong way.)
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