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Given information

gravitational acceleration on earth's surface = , we have to calculate the distance of the point where gravitaion acceleration is one-tenth. 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Solve for the Earth's surface,

Newton's law of universal gravitation states that every particle in the cosmos attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of their distance:

      

   

 

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