Obtain how far is center of mass of the earth-moon system

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(a) Find how far is the center of mass of the Earth-Moon system from the center of the Earth? (Appendix C gives the masses of the Earth and the Moon and the distance between the two.)

(b) Express the answer to (a) as a fraction of the Earth's radius R_e.

R_e

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