Coordinate Geometry
Exercise 3.2
Question 1: Write the answer of each of the following questions:
(a) What is the name of the horizontal and the vertical lines drawn to determine the position of any point in the Cartesian plane?
Answer: x-axis and y-axis
(b) What is the name of each part of the plane formed by these two lines?
Answer: Quadrant
(c) Write the name of the point where these two lines intersect.
Answer: Origin
Question 2: See the given figure and write the following:
- The coordinates of B
- The coordinates of C
- The point identified by the coordinates (-3, -5)
- The point identified by the coordinates (2, -4)
- The abscissa of the point D.
- The ordinate of the point H.
- The coordinates of the point L.
- The coordinates of the point M.
Answer: (a) (-5, 2), (b) (5,-5), (c) E, (d) G, (e) 6, (f) -3, (g) (0, 5), (h) (-3, 0)
Exercise 3.3
Question 1: In which quadrant or on which axis do each of the points (-2, 4), (3, -1), (-1, 0), (1, 2) and (-3, -5) lie? Verify your answer by locating them on the Cartesian plane.
Answer: (-2, 4) quadrant II, (3, -1) quadrant IV, (-1,0) on x-axis and (-3, -5) quadrant III
Question 2: Plot the points (x, y) given in the following table on the plane, choosing suitable units of distance on the axes.
x | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
y | 8 | 7 | -1.25 | 3 | -1 |
Answer: