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2018 AMC 12A Question 17

AMC12 · 2018 AMC 12A

Question 17

Farmer Pythagoras has a field in the shape of a right triangle. The right triangle’s legs have lengths of $3$ and $4$ units. In the corner where those sides meet at a right angle, he leaves a small unplanted square $S$ so that from the air it looks like the right angle symbol. The rest of the field is planted. The shortest distance from $S$ to the hypotenuse is $2$ units. What fraction of the field is planted?

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  1. $\tfrac{25}{27}$
  2. $\tfrac{26}{27}$
  3. $\tfrac{73}{75}$
  4. $\tfrac{145}{147}$
  5. $\tfrac{74}{75}$