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hold a pencil in front of your eye at a position where its blunt end just blocks out the moon. make appropriate measurements to estimate the diameter of the moon, given that the earth-moon distance is 3.8 x 10^5 km. how big is the moon? i know the answer is 3500 km but I don't know how they got it.

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