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📅 NSB 2017🎓 HS🔄 Round 3#️⃣ Q23🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Bill's weight on a theoretical perfectly spherical Earth is 700 newtons. If Bill stood on the surface of a planet with the same mass and radius as Earth, but that was shaped as a hollow sphere with thickness 60 kilometers, what is Bill's new weight, in newtons to one significant figure?

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