Shortest Distance to a line
'The perpendicular distance from a point to a line is the shortest distance to the line'' If I asked you to find the distance from a point to a line you might be confused about which distance I was asking for. Some of the lines on this diagram are shorter than others. However, there is one line which is clearly the shortest - the blue one. This is because the blue line is perpendicular to the line. In this page you...