Over seven seasons, The Golden Women explored loads of life’s huge questions—like why cheesecake is the final word cure-all and why friendship issues most. However it by no means tackled the query in plain sight: Simply how a lot would Rose, Dorothy, Blanche and Sophia be price in the event that they had been really manufactured from gold?
Wait—nobody else has questioned this? Simply me? Truthful sufficient. Nonetheless, curiosity obtained the higher of me, so I reached out to somebody who may really crunch the numbers.
James Hind, a professor of physics and arithmetic at Nottingham Trent College, kindly took on the problem, calculating the worth of the Golden Women in not one however two methods: by weight—and, extra exactly, by quantity.
Let me say very clearly that nobody ought to ever decide a lady solely by her look, or God forbid, weight: Except that girl is manufactured from strong gold.
That mentioned, the load calculation is straightforward, you begin with the load of every of the Golden Women, then convert that to the present worth of a pound of gold. Contemplating the peak and age of every character, Hind says, for those who use a middle vary BMI of twenty-two, their weights are as follows: Dorothy is 149 kilos, Rose is 128 kilos, Blanche is 124 kilos and Sophia could be 105 kilos.Whereas one may quibble over the actresses’ actual measurements, Hind steered preserving issues easy. Utilizing the identical BMI figures for every girl, he defined, helps easy out the variations—and spares us the awkward process of calculating anybody’s weight, particularly that of 4 dearly departed icons.
The worth of gold as of publication is roughly $4,000 per ounce.This additionally means gold is at present price $64,000 per pound.That quantity multiplied by Dorothy’s 149 kilos means she’d be price $9,536,0000 or simply shy of $10 million. Utilizing the identical calculations, Rose is available in at $8,192,000, Blanche at $7,936,000 and Sophia at $6,720,000. Altogether, the four-pack of Golden Women would fetch simply over $32 million, or exactly $32,384,000.
Hind and I agreed that the Golden Women’ true worth could be higher measured by quantity slightly than weight. In any case, gold is way denser than the human physique—merely swapping kilos for gold leaves you with a lump far smaller than the ladies themselves. Imagining them as a substitute as strong gold statues, life-sized and full with their signature expressions, provides a way more becoming calculation.
“To calculate quantity, we are able to use the Brozek equation, which relates physique fats proportion to physique density, utilizing the BMI rating as a information to physique fats proportion, utilizing the Deurenberg strategy. That is used to calculate their physique density, which is then transformed right into a quantity,” explains Hinds.
Did you get that? To be trustworthy, I didn’t. However I’m taking his phrase for it. And in accordance with Hinds’ calculations utilizing quantity, Dorothy could be price $187,607,644, Rose could be $162,593,558, Blanche would are available in at $156,824,675 and Sophia would clock in at simply $130,563,663.
As Hind sums it up, “For right this moment’s gold value and assuming the women’ weight-reduction plan goes nicely, they’re price a cool $638 million as a bunch.” There, that settles the burning query all of us undoubtedly had.
