Foot of a perpendicular with vectors?

I’m prepping for a test and I keep blanking on how to get the foot of the perpendicular from P onto line AB using vectors. For example A=(1,2), B=(5,3), P=(2,7)-what’s the vector-y way to do this (or am I overthinking it)?

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