The foot of the perpendicular drawn from the point $(1, 8, 4)$ on the line joining the points $(0, -11, 4)$ and $(2, -3, 1)$ is

  • A
    $(4, 5, 2)$
  • B
    $(-4, 5, 2)$
  • C
    $(4, -5, 2)$
  • D
    $(4, 5, -2)$

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