AMC 12 2018a Problem 17
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Farmer Pythagoras has a field in the shape of a right triangle. The right triangle's legs have lengths and units. In the corner where those sides meet at a right angle, he leaves a small unplanted square so that from the air it looks like the right angle symbol. The rest of the field is planted. The shortest distance from to the hypotenuse is units. What fraction of the field is planted?
/* Edited by MRENTHUSIASM */
size(160);
pair A, B, C, D, F;
A = origin;
B = (4,0);
C = (0,3);
D = (2/7,2/7);
F = foot(D,B,C);
fill(A--(2/7,0)--D--(0,2/7)--cycle, lightgray);
draw(A--B--C--cycle);
draw((2/7,0)--D--(0,2/7));
label("", midpoint(A--B), N);
label("", midpoint(A--C), E);
label("", midpoint(D--F), SE);
label("", midpoint(A--D));
draw(D--F, dashed);
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