A marble rolls down a frictionless track, and reaches a speed v at the bottom. If you want it to reach a speed of 4 v at the bottom, you need the start of the new track to be

BLUE: twice as high
YELLOW: 4 times as high
GREEN: half as high
PURPLE: 16 times as high
PINK: (need more information)
as the original track height.
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