Consider the attached ellipse. Let the sun be at the right focus. Then perihelion is at right vertex on the x-axis and aphelion is at the left vertex on the x-axis.

The distances:

from perihelion to the sun in terms of ellipse is a-c;
from aphelion to the sun in terms of ellipse is a+c.

Then

$\left\{\begin{array}{l}a-c=741,000,000\\a+c=817,000,000\end{array}\right.$

Add these two equations:

$2a=1,558,000,000 \\ \\a=779,000,000$

and subtract first equation from the second:

$2c=76,000,000 \\ \\c=38,000,000.$

Note that $b=\sqrt{a^2-c^2},$ thus

$b=\sqrt{779,000,000^2-38,000,000^2}=\sqrt{605,397,000,000,000,000}.$

The equation for the planet's orbit is

$\dfrac{x^2}{a^2}+\dfrac{y^2}{b^2}=1\Rightarrow \dfrac{x^2}{606,841,000,000,000,000}+\dfrac{y^2}{605,397,000,000,000,000}=1.$

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3 years ago

Helppppp please i need it

nevsk [136]

Working on them. To be clear, they are 2 different equations, correct?

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3 years ago

The lengths of the sides of a rectangle are 12.4 and 26. What are the measures of the angles between its diagonals? Round your a

Sergeu [11.5K]

Answer:

129 and 51 degrees.

Step-by-step explanation:

Drawing a diagonal gives us a triangle with the opposite side = 12.4 and the adjacent side = 26.

tan x = 12.4 / 26

x = 25.497 degrees.

The other angle will be 90 - 25.497

= 64.503 degrees.

One of the diagonal angles is 180 - (2*25.497)

= 129 degrees

and the other is 180 - 129 = 51 degrees.

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3 years ago