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Posted by Anne on Monday, October 24, 2011 at 4:22pm.

Two stars in a binary system orbit around their center of mass. The centers of the two stars are 7.80 1011 m apart. The larger of the two stars has a mass of 3.50 1030 kg, and its center is 3.00 1011 m from the system's center of mass. What is the mass of the smaller star?

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