Question: You have a ( reusable ! ) drinking straw that is 3 0 cm long. You submerge most of the straw in a bucket of

You have a (reusable!) drinking straw that is 30 cm long. You submerge most of the straw in a bucket of water, then cover the top with your thumb, and then carefully remove the straw from the bucket, holding it ver-cally. You find that there is a column of fluid that remains inside the straw. Suppose that the column of water trapped in the straw extends from the 2 cm mark to the 18 cm mark (with distances measured from the boTTom of the straw). What is the pressure of the trapped air at the top of the straw? 

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