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📅 NSB 2019🎓 HS🔄 Round 8#️⃣ Q20🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

The Sun is approximately 400 times further away from the Moon than the Earth is. The Sun is also approximately 300,000 times more massive than the Earth. Given these values, and expressing your answer as a decimal to two significant figures, what is the ratio of the Sun's gravitational force on the Moon to Earth's gravitational force on the Moon?

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