How do you calculate BMI formula?

How do you calculate BMI formula?

Body Mass Index is a simple calculation using a person’s height and weight. The formula is BMI = kg/m2 where kg is a person’s weight in kilograms and m2 is their height in metres squared. A BMI of 25.0 or more is overweight, while the healthy range is 18.5 to 24.9. BMI applies to most adults 18-65 years.

What is BMI in Philippines?

Body Mass Index / BMI is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to adult men and women. BMI is only used as a general guideline. Never use it to solely predict one’s health status as health cannot be reduced to a simple mathematical calculation.

What is the formula to calculate BMI?

BMI is calculated the same way for both adults and children. The calculation is based on the following formulas: With the metric system, the formula for BMI is weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. Because height is commonly measured in centimeters, divide height in centimeters by 100 to obtain height in meters.

How to calculate your ideal BMI?

First things first, let’s answer the question “what is my BMI?” using our calculator: Input your height. BMI is calculated using meters, but you can use any units and the calculator will convert them for you. Input your weight. You will get the results for your BMI and BMI prime automatically, as well as your WHO BMI category. Input your age in years. Your percentile will be computed and shown.

What are the different ways to calculate BMI?

To calculate your BMI, divide your weight in pounds by your height in inches squared, then multiply the results by a conversion factor of 703. For someone who is 5 feet 5 inches tall (65 inches) and weighs 150 pounds, the calculation would look like this: [150 รท (65)2] x 703 = 24.96.

How to create simple BMI calculater?

In your text editor,create a new file and save it with the extension .py. For this tutorial,let’s name it bmi.py.

  • Let’s add the code to receive weight and height inputs from the user. We are going to use float () and input () Python functions to achieve this.
  • Now let’s add the formula to calculate BMI.
  • Let’s display the calculated BMI to the user.
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