How do you plot points on the coordinate plane?

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Answer 1 · 2014-10-28T14:32:02

Let us plot the point $(-2,3)$ .

Step 1: Draw a dotted vertical line through $-2$ on the $x$ -axis.

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Step 2: Draw a dotted horizontal line through $3$ on the $y$ -axis.

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Step 3: Draw a dot at the intersections of the dotted lines from Step 1 & 2.

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That is how you plot the point $(-2,3)$ on the x,y-plane.

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