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Moon revolves round the earth in an orbit of radius `3.8 xx 10^5` km in 27 days. Earth used to involve round the sun in the orbit of radius `1.5 xx 10^8` kms in 365 days. What is the ratio of mass of sun with the mass of earth.

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