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Which one of the following does not accurately describe the universal gravitational law? A. The object with the smaller mass does most of the moving because the object with the larger mass has too much inertia to move any noticeable amount. B. Gravitational force is proportional to the product of the two masses. C. Gravitational force is proportional to the square of the distance between the centers of both bodies. D. Every object in the universe that has mass attracts every other object in the universe that has mass

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The gravitational force between two objects is directly proportional to the products of the masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
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I think the answer would be C. Gravitational force is proportional to the square of the distance between the centers of both bodies.
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