Gravity force between Earth and Moon from this angle

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Hello the text is in swedish but ill try my best to translate,
What it says is:
Determine the resultant force on the moon with regard to thr gravitation force from the sun and the Earth when it's in this position shown in the figure [ picture http://m.imgur.com/AfJOVZo ]
J represents Earth and M represents the moon, i hope you can help me! I will be very grateful if you do!

I tried 9.82 x 1/81 (moon weight to earth) but it was wrong!
It has to do with Newtons laws though (9.82 for Earth gravity force)

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on Phys.org
Hint: Look up Newton's law of universal gravity.
 
The Sun and Earth will exert separate gravitational forces on the moon. Try determining these forces first. Once you have them, you can use the concept of vector addition.
 

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