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5.4 Exercise 3

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The gravitational pull on various planetary bodies in our solar system varies. Because weight is the force of gravity acting upon a mass, the weights of objects is different on various planetary bodies than they are on Earth. For example, a person who weighs 200 pounds on Earth would weigh only 33 pounds on the moon! Write this comparison as a ratio.

OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, 5.4 Ratios and Proportions, exercise 3

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