From her reading of the elevator's technical specifications, she knows that there is a giant spring at the bottom of the shaft that is part of the elevator's safety mechanism. Jane estimates that she was traveling 14 m/s at the moment the cable broke. It takes 30 s for the elevator to reach the spring and 4 s for it to come to a complete stop. How high above the spring was Jane when the cable broke?

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