You hold an apple in one hand and an orange in the other. If you doubled the mass of the apple and tripled the mass of the orange, without changing the distance between them, the weight of the orange [on Earth] would be
A) doubled.
B) unchanged.
C) six times larger.
D) tripled.
E) five times larger.

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The weight of an object on Earth is determined by its mass and the gravitational force acting on it. Tripling the mass of the orange would result in its weight being tripled, as weight is directly proportional to mass.

You Hold an Apple in One Hand and an Orange