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Consider an ellipse whose centre is of the origin and its major axis is a long x-axis. If its eccentricity is `3/5` and the distance between its foci is 6, then the area of the quadrilateral’ inscribed in the ellipse with diagonals as major and minor axis, of the ellipse is
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