Question

The Law of Universal Gravitation states that gravity is___ proportional to the product of the two

Answer 1

Gravity is directly proportional to the product of the two. Masses and inversely proportional to the square distance between the two masses.

Answer 2

Answer:

The Law of Universal Gravitation states that gravity is directly proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the squared distance between the two masses.

Explanation:

The Law of Universal Gravitation is:

$F=G\frac{m_{1}m_{2}}{r^{2} }$

Where F represent the gravitational force, m1 and m2 are the two masses and r2 is the distance between the two masses.

As state in the equation, the two masses  appear as multiplicative factors of equality, therefore they are directly proportional, before any increase N of m1 or m2, the force will increase N times; contrary case is with r which appears as dividing factor, before an increase N of r, the force will decay exponentially to the square, reason why it is an inverse proportion.