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The orbit of the earth around the sun is an ellipes with the sun at one of its foci. If the semi-major axis is 150 million kilometers and the eccentricity is `(1)/(60),` then the difference between the maximum and the minimum distance between the earth and teh sun is-

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20

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5

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50

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10

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