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The distance the sun and the earth is `1.5xx10^8 km`. At what point on the line joining them, will the gravitational attraction of the sun and that of the earth be equal but opposite ? ( Mass of the sun is 336400 times the mass of the earth )

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at a distance of 258000 km from the earth
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