Question

Find the point on the line

Answer 1

is this for linear algebra?

Answer 2

nope

Answer 3

for calc

Answer 4

ok, so there are 2 main ways of doing this; with the orthogonal projection and the dot product

Answer 5

oh and also with calculus of course

Answer 6

oh really? doesn't sound familiar

Answer 7

never mind lol forgot the easiest one was the cal one

Answer 8

oh ok lol

Answer 9

so you have the distance \[D=\sqrt(6(x+2)^2+3(y-5)^2)\]
this is the polynomial that describes the distance. Now what you can do is just take the derivatives to x and to y and then solve them for 0. As you know , P is an extremum if and only if the derivative f'(P)=0.

Answer 10

im sorry but im still lost. do i take the derivative of that then?