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geometry senior

Problem

Triangle is a right triangle with and right angle at Point is the midpoint of and is on the same side of line as so that Given that the area of triangle may be expressed as where and are positive integers, and are relatively prime, and is not divisible by the square of any prime, find
Solution
We use the Pythagorean Theorem on to determine that Let be the orthogonal projection from to Thus, , , and From the third equation, we get By the Pythagorean Theorem in we have Thus, In , we use the Pythagorean Theorem to get Thus, Hence, the answer is
Final answer
578