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2015 AMC 12A Problem 8
The ratio of the length to the width of a rectangle is 4 : 3. If the rectangle has diagonal of length d, then the area may be expressed as kd^2 for some constant k. What is k?
\textbf{(A)}\ \frac27 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \frac37 \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{12}{25} \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \frac{16}{25} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \frac34
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