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Transcribed Image Text:Exercise #1
Description: The figure below shows several positions of a comet traveling in an elliptical orbit
around the Sun. Four different segments of its orbit (A-D), and the corresponding triangular
shaped area swept out by the comet, have been shaded in gray. Assume that each of the shaded
triangular segments have the same area.
SUN
A. Ranking Instruction: Rank the time it took (from greatest to least) for the comet to move
along each of the segments (A - D) of the orbit.
Ranking Order: Greatest 1
3
4
Least
Or, the time to travel each segment would be the same.
(indicate with check mark).
Carefully explain your reasoning for ranking this way:
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