How do you plot the point X(1,10) on a coordinate plane?

1 Answer
Aug 28, 2015

You use the point's #x# and #y#-coordinates to plot it.

Explanation:

The general form of a point #A# is given as

#color(blue)(A(x"-coordinate", y"-coordinate"))" "#, where

#x#-coordinate tells you what the point's coordinate is on the #x#-axis;
#y#-coordinate tells you what the point's coordinate is on the #y#-axis.

In your case, you know that point #"X"# is given to you as

#"X"(1, 10)#

This means that if you start from the origin of the coordonate axes, you need to go one unit on the #x#-axis to #x=1# and ten units on the #y#-axis to #y=10#.

Here's how your point would look

graph{(x-1)^2 + (y-10)^2 <= 1/50 [-8.06, 9.72, 3.91, 12.8]}

An alternative way of thinking about this is that your point is the intersection of the vertical line that goes through #x=1# and the horizontal line that goes through #y = 10#.