Homework Help: algebra

Posted by tashea on Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 9:06pm.

the weight of an object varies inversely as the square of its distance from the center of the planet it is on. If a person weighs 180 pounds on a planet's surface, what is his weight 250 miles above the surface of the planet? The planet's radius is 7000 miles.

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