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Reminder Round all answers to two decimal places unless otherwise indicated.
Note Some of the formulas below use the special number
The height of the winning pole vault in the early years of the modern Olympic Games can be modeled as a function of time by the formula
Here t is the number of years since 1900, and H is the winning height in meters. (One meter is 39.37 inches.)
a. Calculate
b. By how much did the height of the winning pole vault increase from 1900 to 1904? From 1904 to 1908?
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