You Hold an Apple in One Hand and an Orange

question 73

Multiple Choice

You hold an apple in one hand and an orange in the other. If you doubled the mass of the apple and tripled the mass of the orange, without changing the distance between them, the gravitational force between them would be

• A) unchanged, because it is zero both before and after the mass alterations.
• B) five times larger.
• C) six times larger.
• D) three times larger.
• E) doubled.

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