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A focus of an ellipse is at the origin. The directrix is the line `x""=""4` and the eccentricity is 1/2. Then the length of the semimajor axis is (1) `8/3` (2) `2/3` (3) `4/3` (4) `5/3`

A

`5//3`

B

`8//3`

C

`2//3`

D

`4//3`

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