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it ignores the work done on the
system by one of the external forces, namely gravity. Instead, it
treats that work by *pretending* that the potential energy the
system shares with the Earth belongs exclusively to the system.
I'm not saying that the answer is wrong, of course, but here are
two other (I would argue, more proper) ways of deriving it: