document.write( "Question 1165485: Mars orbits the sun in an elliptical path whose distance from the sun is 140 million miles. Suppose the sun represents one focus of the ellipse.\r
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document.write( "a. draw the sun, mars, mar's orbit on a cartesian plane where each unit is 10 million miles.\r
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document.write( "b. write the standard form of the equation for the elliptical orbit of mars around the sun where the center of the ellipse is at the origin. \n" );
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