How do you graph (10,5,2) on a coordinate graph?

1 Answer
Oct 14, 2015

First find a shop that will sell you 3 dimensional paper; after that it's relatively easy (see details below)

Explanation:

Starting at the origin

  • move #color(red)(10)# units in the positive #color(red)(X)# direction;
    then
  • move #color(blue)(5)# units in the positive #color(blue)(Y)# direction;
    then
  • move #color(green)(2)# units in the positive #color(green)(Z)# direction.

Place a dot in space at this location and label it #(color(red)(10),color(blue)(5),color(green)(2))#

You should have something that looks like:
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