Find the point between the earth and the moon

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Solve the following questions:

Question I: Find the point between the earth and the moon where the graviational potential is a maximum. Give the distance of this point to the center of the earth. Express your answer in terms of the earth-moon distance R. Note that the ratio of masses (moon/earth) = 0.0123.

Question II: What is the force on a rocket ship at this point?

Explanation and formulas needed for best answer for above questions!

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