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<p>Triangle CPB has hypotenuse of 3 (BC). CP must be less than 3. Therefore, the answer is A.</p>

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<p>What you need to look at is the right triangle PBC. The AC side doesn’t even matter for this problem.</p>

<p>If you see it , you notice that BC side is the hypotheneus (however you spell that) is BC which is 3. You also know that a hypotheneus has to be bigger than a side.</p>

<p>So PC < 3 ; the answer is A) 2, which is the only value less than 3.</p>

<p>Hope this helps!</p>

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<p>Hm. An altitude is the shortest path from the vertex (a point) to a line. This is because the shortest path from a point to a line will form a perpendicular intersection.</p>

<p>So if one of the paths is 3, and the other path is 6, the only answer that is shorter than 3 is 2. </p>

<p>Thats pretty much it, I think. That was a tricky one. The two answers above probably explain it better, I was still typing up my response as they answered apparently.</p>