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1950 Paper 2 Q410
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A family of ellipses, all having eccentricity \(e\), have for their major axes parallel chords of a fixed circle. Show that their envelope is an ellipse of eccentricity \[ \sqrt{(1-e^2)/(2-e^2)}. \]