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Line segments drawn from the vertex opposite the hypotenuse of a right triangle to the points trisecting the hypotenuse have lengths

\sin x

and

\cos x

, where

x

is a real number such that

0<x<\frac{\pi}2

. The length of the hypotenuse is

\text{(A)} \ \frac 43 \qquad \text{(B)} \ \frac 32 \qquad \text{(C)} \ \frac{3\sqrt{5}}{5} \qquad \text{(D)} \ \frac{2\sqrt{5}}{3} \qquad \text{(E)} \ \text{not uniquely determined}

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