The coordinates of the foot of the perpendicular drawn from the origin to the line joining the points $(-9, 4, 5)$ and $(10, 0, -1)$ are

  • A
    $(-3, 2, 1)$
  • B
    $(1, 2, 2)$
  • C
    $(4, 5, 3)$
  • D
    None of these

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