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5 1, 5
4, 2
-5 5
7, 1
2, 2
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Imagine the top surface of your
desk stretching in every direction.
If it continued to spread , it
would go right through
your neighbor . . .
. . . and then through the
classroom walls . . .
. . . and through the school and
the hills and the mountains and
out into space until it went on
forever in every direction.
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The coordinate plane is filled
with points . . .
. . . infinitely many points.
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The two number lines have special names.
The vertical
number line
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y-axis.
y
The plural of axis
is axes. We often 5
talk about the
coordinate axes.
x
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To study a point, we need to
know where to find it. So we give
it coordinates.
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y
Coordinates written
in parentheses are
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x, y
called an ordered
pair.
x
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Consider the point So the 4 in (4, -2)
which has says we need to move
5
coordinates, (4, -2). 4 units to the right.
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4, 2
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To get to the origin So the origin is
from the origin, we 5 designated by
don’t move at all. the ordered
pair, (0, 0)
0, 0
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In Quadrant II, x-values are
In Quadrant I, all values
negative, while y-values are
are positive.
The twopositive.
number lines We call the regions
II
divide the plane into 5 I
quadrants.
four regions.
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2, 3
5,1
3, 2 2, 4
Plot each point and describe how to get
to the point from the origin.
From the origin, move to the right
1. (8,–7) 8 units, then down 7 units.