Consider a planet in some solar system which has a mass double the mass of Earth and density equal to the average density of Earth. If the weight of an object on Earth is $W$,then the weight of the same object on that planet will be

  • A
    $\sqrt{2} W$
  • B
    $2 W$
  • C
    $W$
  • D
    $2^{1/3} W$

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