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jeca86

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I need help setting up the integral for this problem. Thanks in advance.

A certain oval-shaped NASCAR track has a major axis of 3250ft and a minor axis of 2000ft. Approximate the length of the track in miles.
 
Write the equation of an ellipse, then use an approximation for the length by approximating the integral arising from the arc-length formula. It might be easier to use polar coordinates and find a table of elliptic integrals.
 
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