Find an approximate polar equation for the ellipticalorbit of the earth around the sun (at one focus) giventhat the eccentricity is about  0.017 and the length of themajor axis is about 2.99 x 108 km.

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Chapter11: Topics From Analytic Geometry
Section11.6: Polar Equations Of Conics
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Find an approximate polar equation for the elliptical
orbit of the earth around the sun (at one focus) given
that the eccentricity is about  0.017 and the length of the
major axis is about 2.99 x 10km.

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