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Lesson 1: Four quadrants- Points on the coordinate plane examples
- Plotting a point (ordered pair)
- Finding the point not graphed
- Points on the coordinate plane
- Points on the coordinate plane
- Quadrants of the coordinate plane
- Points and quadrants example
- Quadrants on the coordinate plane
- Coordinate plane parts review
- Graphing coordinates review
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Quadrants of the coordinate plane
The coordinate plane is divided into four sections, called quadrants. Quadrant I has positive x and y values, Quadrant II has negative x and positive y, Quadrant III has negative x and y, and Quadrant IV has positive x and negative y. The point (-7,7) is in Quadrant II. Created by Sal Khan and Monterey Institute for Technology and Education.
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- witch quadrant dose (0,0) lie in or (0,9)(17 votes)
- Say for (0,0) that it is the origin, and for (0,9) that it is on the y axis.(21 votes)
- I know this sounds crazy but could we have a 3d object in a graph?
To graph the area or mass of the object?(18 votes)- Yes, you can have a 3d-object in a 3d-graph. But you don't need this to graph the area/mass. You simply make a function for the area or mass and graph that.(12 votes)
- what if (0, -7) ?
in which quadrants is?(5 votes)- Points on the axes aren't in any quadrant.(21 votes)
- all of these comments are over 5 years ago and thats flipping insane-(11 votes)
- bro all the comments are 7 years old for me.(2 votes)
- name the quadrant in which the point is located (20,5)(5 votes)
- quadrant I is the answer(2 votes)
- So what happens if a point is plotted on the origin (0,0)?(6 votes)
- Then you would just refer to the point as being on the origin. 0 is not negative or positive so it cannot fall within the other quadrants.(8 votes)
- what does the y mean in y axis(5 votes)
- The 'y' doesn't have a meaning. it is just a letter associated with that axis.(6 votes)
- why is it called the "y" and "x" axis? Is there a certain meaning for them? 🤷🏼♀️(6 votes)
- Not at all.they indicate the horizontal and vertical line.there just variables.(4 votes)
- So how do we determine the quadrant if either x or y is equal to 0??(5 votes)
- The point does not reside in either quadrant. We would say that it is on the axis.(6 votes)
- Not a question, a grammar lesson. You said, "A quadrant are each of the four sections of..." No! "A quadrant is," not "A quadrant are". The predicate of a sentence agrees with the subject, in this case, a quadrant, not with the object, sections. Subject and predicate agree, not predicate and object, and not predicate with the nearest noun.(6 votes)
Video transcript
In which quadrant is the point
negative 7 comma 7 located? So let's just review
what a quadrant is. A quadrant are each
of the four sections of the coordinate plane. And when we talk
about the sections, we're talking about the sections
as divided by the coordinate axes. So this right here is the
x-axis and this up-down axis is the y-axis. And you can see it
divides a coordinate plane into four sections. We call each of these
sections quadrants. This one over here, where both
the x-values and the y-values are positive, we call
the first quadrant. And we use the Roman numeral I. Then if we kind of
move counterclockwise around the coordinate
plane, this quadrant where the x-values are negative and
the y-values are positive, we call this the
second quadrant. I could write it. We call this the
second quadrant. Then we go down here where
both the x-values are negative and the y-values are negative. We call this the third
quadrant, once again using Roman numerals. Then finally the quadrant
where the x-values are positive but the y-values
are negative, we call this the fourth quadrant. So let's see which quadrant
the point negative 7 comma 7 is located. So there's two ways
to think about it. You could just say, look,
we have a negative x-value. Our x-value is
negative, so we're going to move to the left. So we're going to
be on this side. We're going to be on
this side right here of the coordinate plane. Just by the fact that
the x-value is negative, we're going to be either in the
second or the third quadrant. Now, we know that the
y-value is positive. We know that the
y-value is positive. So if the x-value is negative
and the y-value is positive, we're going to land
someplace right over here in the second quadrant. The other way to
think about it is you could literally
just plot this point and see that it falls
in the second quadrant. So let's do that. If x is negative 7. So that's negative 1, negative
2, negative 3, negative 4, negative 5, negative
6, negative 7. Did I do that right? 1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6, 7. So this is x is negative 7. And then we have to
go up 7 because y is equal to positive 7. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 7. So the point negative 7
comma 7 is right over here, clearly lies in the
second quadrant.