The purpose of this investigation is to find out how we can scale Barbie to a real life proportion by measuring her height, bust, waist and hips. And then reflect upon these results

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Barbie Investigation

Introduction

The purpose of this investigation is to find out how we can scale Barbie to a real life proportion by measuring her height, bust, waist and hips. And then reflect upon these results

Proportions of Barbie versus Average Woman

“If Libby’s waist size of 71.1 cm were to remain unchanged, then applying Barbie’s proportions to her would mean Libby shoots up in height, to an Amazonian 2.28m tall. She would also have hips measuring 101.6 cm and a bust of 83.9 cm” (Source MLA)

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How to do the Math

To find the barbified measurements for Libby the proportions needs to be calculated. To calculate this we use Libby’s original waist measurement and divide it by Barbie’s measurement. Libby’s waist is 71.1cm and Barbie’s is 8.9 cm= 71.1/8.9= 7.99. The proportion is 1:7.99. Thereafter simply just multiply the proportion by each of Barbie’s measurements (Height, Bust, Hips) and the answers is the measurements for the barbified  Libby. The same method is used for the average UK woman where the proportion was 9.7 because the average UK waist size is 86.3cm and 86.3/8.9=9.7.

Libby

 If Libby’s waist remains the same size, then using fractions we see that (Libby’s waist/Barbie’s waist = 71.1 cm/8.9 cm 7.99)

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Applying that scale factor to the rest of Barbie’s measurement we get the following:

Libby’s barbified height: 29.5x7.99 =235.706 236cm

Libby’s barbified bust: 11.6 cm x7.99 = 92.684 cm 92.7 cm

Libby’s barbified hips: 12.7x 799 = 101.473 cm  101.5 cm

Average UK woman

If the average UK woman’s waist remains the same size then using fractions we see that Average UK woman’s waist/Barbie’s waist=86.3 cm/8.9 cm = 9.7

Average UK woman’s height: 9.7x29.5 cm=286.152.97m

Average UK woman’s bust: 9.7x11.6 cm=112.52  1.12m

Average UK woman’s hips: 9.7x12.7 cm=123.19  1.23m

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