Math Portfolio Type II Gold Medal heights

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The Olympic games were created thousands of years ago with the purpose to determine who could push himself the hardest to jump higher or run faster. High jump has always been part of the revived Olympics and has been carried out ever since the 1896's Olympics.

The achievements of athletes almost put itself forward for analysis, as the data is already precisely recorded and therefore it is rather easy to make predictions. This data is useful for trainer or scouts when they have to estimate whether an athlete is worth their while or not.

As in all of the other programs a steady improvement of the athletes' performances have been recorded as the games advanced and almost all skilled sportsmen were taken under supervision of trainers and were made professionals.

The recorded heights of the gold medal winners starting from the 1932's Olympics until 1980 are as follow:

Year

1932

1936

1948

1952

1956

1960

1964

1968

1972

1976

1980

Height in cm

197

203

198

204

212

216

218

224

223

225