If the force of gravity decreases with the inverse square of the distance, why were we allowed,

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If the force of gravity decreases with the inverse square of the distance, why were we allowed, in all our earlier work on the gravitational force, to say that an object sitting on the ground, an object sitting in a tree \(10 \mathrm{~m}\) above the ground, and an object flying at an altitude of \(10 \mathrm{~km}\) all experience the same \(9.8-\mathrm{m} / \mathrm{s}^{2}\) acceleration due to gravity?

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