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Given information

An ellipse that is farthest away from the point .

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

According to the question, 

Ellipse equation in terms of ,

     

 

Let   the point on the ellipse that is farthest away from the point
 
Let   and  are two points, the distance between these two points.
We know that, the distance  between these two points is      

Now, we can put the value of  and in above formula, we get: 

 

    

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