Steel aircraft carrier problem

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A steel aircraft carrier is 384 m long when moving through the icy North Atlantic at a temperature of 4.24 °C. By how much does the carrier lengthen when it is traveling in the warm Mediterranean Sea at a temperature of 25.3 °C?

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