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Orbit of the earth around the sun is an ellipse with sun at one of its foci. If the semi-major axis is 150 million kilometers and the eccentricity is 1/60. The difference between the maximum and the minimum distance between the earth and the sun is equals to:

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20 million km
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5 million km
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50 million km
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2.5 million km
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