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A bag of sugar has a mass of 2.26 kg. What is its weight in newtons on the moon, where the acceleration due to gravity is one-sixth of that on Earth? (Hint: On Earth, g=9.8m/s2g=9.8 \mathrm{m} / \mathrm{s}^{2}.)

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We are given gMg_M that is six times smaller than gE=9.8ms2g_E=9.8\frac{\text{m}}{s^2}.

gM=gE6gM=9.8ms26gM=1.63ms2\begin{aligned} &g_M=\dfrac{g_E}{6}\\ &g_M=\dfrac{9.8\frac{\text{m}}{s^2}}{6}\\ &g_M=1.63\frac{\text{m}}{s^2}\\ \end{aligned}

Also, we are given a mass of a bag of sugar m=2.26 kgm=2.26\text{ kg}.

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