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The lengths of major and minor axes of an ellipse are 8 and 6 and their equations are y - 1 = 0 and x + 3 = 0 respectively . Find the equation of the ellipse .

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`((x+3)^(2))/(16)+((y-1)^(2))/(9)=1`
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