Let ABCABC be a right triangle with a right angle at CC. Two lines, one parallel to ACAC and the other parallel to BCBC, intersect on the hypotenuse ABAB. The lines split the triangle into two triangles and a rectangle. The two triangles have areas 512512 and 3232. What is the area of the rectangle?

Source: 2011-2012 Winter Online Math Open

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