Consider an ellipse with eccentricity e. (a) What are the possible values of e? (b) What happens to the graph of the ellipse as e increases?

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Problem 143E: In your own words, define an ellipse and write the equation of an ellipse centered at the origin in...
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Consider an ellipse with eccentricity e. (a) What are the possible values of e? (b) What happens to the graph of the ellipse as e increases?

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