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Can someone give me an explanation to ellipse formula please

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To derive the equation of an ellipse centered at the origin, we begin with the foci (−c,0) and (c,0). Theellipse is the set of all points (x,y) such that the sum of the distances from (x,y) to the foci is constant, as shown in Figure 5.

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