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Knowing that mass of moon is `M/81` (where M is the mass of earth), find the distance of the point, where gravitational field due to earth and moon cancel each other. Given that the distance between the earth and moon is 60 R, where R is the radius of earth.

A

2R

B

4R

C

6R

D

8R

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