{"status": "success", "data": {"description_md": "Farmer Pythagoras has a field in the shape of a right triangle. The right triangle's legs have lengths $3$ 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?\n\n
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\n\n$\\textbf{(A) } \\frac{25}{27} \\qquad \\textbf{(B) } \\frac{26}{27} \\qquad \\textbf{(C) } \\frac{73}{75} \\qquad \\textbf{(D) } \\frac{145}{147} \\qquad \\textbf{(E) } \\frac{74}{75}$", "description_html": "

Farmer Pythagoras has a field in the shape of a right triangle. The right triangle’s legs have lengths 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?


\\textbf{(A) } \\frac{25}{27} \\qquad \\textbf{(B) } \\frac{26}{27} \\qquad \\textbf{(C) } \\frac{73}{75} \\qquad \\textbf{(D) } \\frac{145}{147} \\qquad \\textbf{(E) } \\frac{74}{75}

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