A hint to get started
Find a perpendicular foot, shortest distance and reflected point
The point is and the line is , .
(i) Find the coordinates of the foot of the perpendicular from P to the line.
(ii) Deduce the shortest distance from P to the line.
(iii) Find the position vector of the image of P in the line.
CJC · Lecture · Example 23
Choose a point on the line and a nonzero direction; keep one parameter consistent across all components.