How many elephants would fit into the Empire State building

Name __Wesley Lowe________________________________________

1.  Background Story:

My Fermi problem is, how many elephants can fit into the Empire State Building. I chose this problem because it has many variables to test. The variables are, how old is the elephant, and is it a boy or girl.

2.  Ask Yourself This:

How many square feet are there in one floor of the Empire State Building? How many floors are there in the Empire State Building? What is the average size of an adult elephant?

3.  Helpful Hints:

there are 102 Floors in the Empire State Building. There is exactly 2,768,591 square feet of usable space in the empire state building. The average size of a female African elephant is cubic feet  is 176 square feet.

4.  Construct a Formula:

multiply the amount of elephants by the average size of one floor, and then you multiply that number by the amount of floors.

5.  Messy Math:  

2,768,591 square feet in the empire state building divided by 102 floors= 27,143 square feet in one floor of the empire state building.

27,143 square feet in one floor divided by 170 square feet in one elephant= 159 elephants, per floor.

159 elephants multiplied by 102 floors= 16,218 elephants fit in the empire state building.

6.  Answer:  

The answer to my problem (how many elephants would fit into the empire state building?) is approximately 16,218 average size female elephants.