Find the foot of the perpendicular drawn from the point to the line Also, find the length of the perpendicular.

Given: - Point with position vector and equation of line


Let, PQ be the perpendicular drawn from P () to given line whose endpoint/ foot is Q point.


Q is on line



is the position vector of Q


Hence,







Since, PQ is perpendicular on line


Therefore, their Dot product is zero


Compare given line equation with






14λ – 14 = 0


λ = 1


Hence Position vector of Q by putting the value of λ




; Foot of perpendicular


and Distance PQ, putting the value of λ in PQ vector equation, we get





Now, Magnitude of PQ


We know that,


; where x,y,z are coefficient of vector


Hence




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