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This is a bit of an odd question, since it mixes metric and imperial units. See the calculations below. On the moon the object’s mass would be the same, but its weight would be

Explanation:

An object’s mass remains the same wherever it is in the universe, so the object would still have a mass of `10` `kg` on the moon.

Its weight on Earth is given by:

`F_w=mg=10xx9.8=98` `N`

I am not really familiar with imperial units and would have thought that pounds were a unit of mass, not force, but according to the question this equates to a weight force of `60` `lb`.

I had to look up the value of `g` on the moon, which is 0.025

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