The earth moves in an elliptic orbit about the sun

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The earth moves in an elliptic orbit about the sun, with the sun at one focus. The least and greatest distances of the earth from the sun are 91,446,000 miles and 94,560,000 miles, respectively. What is the eccentricity of the ellipse? How long are the major and minor axes?
 
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