standard_description: Understand that a two-dimensional figure is similar to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations; given two similar two-dimensional figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the similarity between them.
problem_activity: Task
Suppose $P$ is a point not contained on a line $L$.
Let $Q$ be the point on $L$ so that $PQ$ meets $L$ perpendicularly and let
$R$ be any other point on $L$ as in the picture below:
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Show that segment $PQ$ is shorter than segment $PR$.


aligns: no