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Two objects are raised off the ground and one of them is three times as high as the other one. How do their potential energy compare?

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The potential energy of any object depends on its mass as well as its height off the ground.

Potential energy = mass x gravity x height.

We don't have enough information to compare the potential energies of these two objects because we don't know their masses.

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