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A piece of cheese is located at (12, 10) in a coordinate plane. A mouse is at (4, - 2) and is running up the line y = -5x + 18 to get closer to the piece of cheese. At the point (a, b) , the mouse starts getting farther from the cheese rather than closer to it. Then the value of (a + b) is
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B
10
(a, b) is the foot of the perpendicular from (12, 10) on the line y + 5x = 18
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