The acceleration of gravity on the moon is only one-sixth of that on Earth. If you hit a baseball on the moon with the same effort (and at the speed and angle) that you would on Earth, the ball would travel

A) one-sixth as far.
B) 36 times as far.
C) the same distance away.
D) 6 times as far.
E) as far.


D

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