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Draw the plan view. Imagine you are looking down on the plane containing the Sun, Earth and Venus. Put in circles to represent the orbits, none of the sizes will be right of course but the diagram can still be useful.

Choose a position for the Earth and then imagine Venus in all possible positions relative to Earth.

What's that view going to look like to an observer on Earth?