The vertical cross section of a cooling tower for a nuclear power plant is a truncated hyperbola. The diameter of the circular base at the bottom of the tower is 100 feet. The diameter (the narrowest point) 100 feet. above the ground is 44 feet. Find the approximate diameter of the top of the tower if it is 140 feet. high?

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