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The earth attracts the moon with the same force with which the moon attracts the earth .This is beacause

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The earth attrects the moon with the same force with which the moon attracts the earth.This is because according to Newton's third law of motion the forces of the action and reaction are always equal and opposite so,when earth attracts the moon with a certain graviational force then the moon attracts the earth with an equal and opposite graviational force .
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