document.write( "Question 1170055: The moon’s orbit is an ellipse with the earth at one focus. The length of the major axis is 478,000 miles and the eccentricity e = 0.0549. Find the greatest distance from the earth to the moon.
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document.write( "The distance is greatest, when the moon is at the vertex the most remoted from the focus\r\n" );
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document.write( "    the greatest distance = (478000/2)*(1+0.0549) miles.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Use your calculator.\r\n" );
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