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Given information

Given:

The acceleration of gravity, above the Earth's surface at (a)   and (b) 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
(a)
Every particle in the cosmos attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, according to Newton's law of universal gravitation:
 
As a result, the Earth's acceleration equals
 

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