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= __**Total Middle School Growth**__ =

==There are 351 students in the 8th grade at Giachetta Middle School. Of these, 176 are boys. During the school year the boys grew an average of 3 inches in height, and the girls grew an average of 0.75 inches (they had done their major growing in 6th and 7th grades). If all the 8th grade students were lying stretched out in a straight line, head-to-feet, on the playground, on the last day of school, how much longer would that line be than it would have been on the first day of school that year? ==