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The direction cosines of the line passing through \(P(2,3-1)\) and the origin are

  1. A \(\frac{2}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{3}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{1}{\sqrt{14}}\)
  2. B \(\frac{2}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{-3}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{1}{\sqrt{14}}\)
  3. C \(\frac{-2}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{-3}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{1}{\sqrt{14}}\)
  4. D \(\frac{2}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{-3}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{-1}{\sqrt{14}}\)
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(C) \(\frac{-2}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{-3}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{1}{\sqrt{14}}\)

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The direction cosines of \(O P\) \(\begin{aligned} & =\left(\frac{-2}{\sqrt{4+9+1}}, \frac{-3}{\sqrt{4+9+1}}, \frac{1}{\sqrt{4+9+1}}\right) \\ & =\left(\frac{-2}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{-3}{\sqrt{14}}, \frac{1}{\sqrt{14}}\right) \end{aligned}\)