Distance of an element to $\ker f$ in a normed vector space.

Question

Let $E$ a normed vector space and the hyperplane $H=\ker f$ with $f\in \mathcal{L}(E, \mathbb{R})$. Prove that if $a\in E$ then $\displaystyle{d(a, H)=\frac{|f(a)|}{\|f\|}}$