Why is the moon in the wrong place?

According to scientific measurement the moon is moving away from earth at the rate of 1.5 inches per year. If that is true and that the moon is 4.5 billion years old then the moon should be about 3 million miles from earth. At present it is about 238 thousand miles from earth. Is that what they call 'the margin of error'?

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Axeroberts · 56-60, M

No but the sun's gravitation will balance it out so it is not a constant number. It also has to do with the oceans as that is what is pushing the moon away and we have not always had oceans on our planet