You must consider how far away from the point they are in the horizontal direction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_mass#Definition

This is very unbalanced: 30 to the right and 55 to the left.

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This is almost balanced (my graphic is not perfect). 38 the right and 36 to the left.

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