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Recreation John O’Hagan has just returned from a sales convention at Puert...

Recreation John O’Hagan has just returned from a sales convention at Puerto Vallarta, Mexico where, in order to win a bet he made with Marjory Duffin (Duffin House was also at the convention), he went bungee jumping at a nearby mountain retreat. The bungee cord he used had the property that a person weighing 70 kg would drop a total distance of 74.5 meters, while a 90 kg person would drop 93.5 meters. Express the distance d a jumper drops as a linear function of the jumper’s weight w. John OHagan dropped 90 m. What was his approximate weight?

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