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-Use Figure 1 to Complete the Following Statement $\odot$

question 10

Multiple Choice

Figure 1
-Use Figure 1 to complete the following statement. At the start of the evolution of a protostar, the radius of a 60 M _$\odot$ protostar is roughly _________ a 1 M _$\odot$ main-sequence star.

• A) 10 times bigger than
• B) 100 times bigger than
• C) 10 times smaller than
• D) 100 time smaller than
• E) the same as

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