According to the universal law of gravitation, the force due to gravity is

A) not dependent on the distance between objects.
B) directly proportional to the distance between objects.
C) directly proportional to the square of the distance between objects.
D) inversely proportional to the distance between objects.
E) inversely proportional to the square of the distance between objects.


E

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