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The shortest distance from a point to a straight line is along the—
The shortest distance from a point to a straight line is along the—
- aparallel
- bperpendicular
- carbitrary chord
- dtangent
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Among all line segments joining a point to a straight line, the perpendicular is always the shortest because any oblique segment forms the hypotenuse of a right triangle with the perpendicular as one leg. Hence the minimum distance is measured along the perpendicular.