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Given information

Given table gives the winning heights for the Olympic pole vault competitions up to the year 2000.

And the scatter plot of the data is:

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

From the scatter plot, the data points appear to lie close to a straight line.

One possible line passes through the first and last points.

The slope of a line passing through two points is given by:

 

Here the first and last points are respectively.

Plugging the values:

   

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