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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 33 and 44 units. In the corner where those sides meet at a right angle, he leaves a small unplanted square SS so that from the air it looks like the right angle symbol. The rest of the field is planted. The shortest distance from SS to the hypotenuse is 22 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("44", midpoint(A--B), N);
label("33", midpoint(A--C), E);
label("22", midpoint(D--F), SE);
label("SS", midpoint(A--D));
draw(D--F, dashed);

(A) 2527(B) 2627(C) 7375(D) 145147(E) 7475\textbf{(A) } \frac{25}{27} \textbf{(B) } \frac{26}{27} \textbf{(C) } \frac{73}{75} \textbf{(D) } \frac{145}{147} \textbf{(E) } \frac{74}{75}

Dataset text AMC 12 2000 to 2025. Quoted with source.

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