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Earth's density is spherically symmetric. The force of gravity at a radius depends only on the mass inside the sphere of that radius. All the contributions from outside cancel out as a consequence of the inverse-square law of gravitation. Another consequence is that the gravity is the same as if all the mass were concentrated at the center. Thus, the gravitational acceleration at this radius is
: where is the gravitational constant and is the

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