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Let $\vec{a}=2 \hat{i}+\hat{j}+\hat{k}$, and $\vec{b}$ and $\vec{c}$ be two nonzero vectors such that $|\vec{a}+\vec{b}+\vec{c}|=|\vec{a}+\vec{b}-\vec{c}|$ and $\vec{b} \cdot \vec{c}=0$. Consider the following two statements:

(A) $|\vec{a}+\lambda \vec{c}| \geq|\vec{a}|$ for all $\lambda \in \mathbb{R}$.

(B) $\vec{a}$ and $\vec{c}$ are always parallel.

Then,

only (B) is correct
both (A) and (B) are correct
only (A) is correct
neither (A) nor (B) is correct

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