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Accodting to Newton's universal law of gravity, if the separation between to bodies is increased by a factor of three, the gravitational pull each has on the other will be X by a factor of Y ?

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The Newton's law of gravity says that, the force between two bodies of mass m1 and m2 is directly proportional to the product of mass m1*m2 and is inversely proportional to the square ...

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