Q&A for How to Graph Points on the Coordinate Plane

Substitute the x values on your cartesian plan into your equation, which will give you the corresponding y values. You can then plot it onto your graph.

These notations indicate whether the x and y coordinates of a graphed point are positive or negative. You can use this information to determine the graph quadrant in which a point appears. Quadrant I (upper right) is (+,+), quadrant II (upper left) is (-,+), quadrant III (lower left) is (-,-), and quadrant IV (lower right) is (+,-).

Solve the equation for y; y will equal 2/3 x. Pick several values for x. Multiply each value of x by 2/3 (for example, if x= 2 then y will be 2/3 times 2 or 4/3). Once you have done this for all of your x values, you are ready to graph. Locate your first x value on the horizontal axis and go up to the y value you calculated and make a small dot. Do this for each x value--connect the dots with a smooth line or curve as (in this case, it will be a line).

First, look at the x-axis. Now locate the x-axis coordinate. For example, if the full coordinate is (-5,-9), the x-axis coordinate is -5. Find -5 on the x-axis. Once you find the x-axis coordinate, look at the y-axis. The y-axis coordinate is -9, so locate -9 on the y-axis. When you find both coordinates, plot the dot where the two number lines meet.

An open dot on a solid line is more visible than a closed dot.

Plot it as you would any other set of coordinates. All of the points will be in the upper-left quadrant.

Find the midpoint between the two x-coordinates and the midpoint between the two y-coordinates. They are, respectively, 4½ and 6. Those are the coordinates of the midpoint of the line.

It means to draw a continuous line from one point to the next point in order.

On a coordinate plane graph, the point is downward one full point from the center without moving left or right.

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Every point on the plane has an x value and a y value. (The x value is written first, then the y value.) If a point has a positive x value, the point sits somewhere on the right half of the plane (in other words, to the right of the vertical (y) axis). If the point has a negative x value, that means it is situated somewhere on the left half of the plane (to the left of the vertical axis). If a point has a positive y value, it will sit somewhere in the top half of the plane (above the horizontal (x) axis). If a point has a negative y value, it is placed somewhere in the bottom half of the plane (below the horizontal axis).

The point is in the upper half of the graph, but because it is on the y-axis, it's not in any quadrant.

That is a point three units to the left of the y-axis and two units above the x-axis.

(-6, -3) is a point in the third (lower left) quadrant six units to the left of the y-axis and 3 units below the x-axis. There is no "answer" without a question (such as an equation to solve).

You could use an infinite number of beginning points. It doesn't always have to be a beginning point at the center of the coordinate plane at (0,0).

Technically all points are dimensionless, so they would not overlap. As a practical matter, however, points very close together might overlap, in which case you would not need to draw a line between them.

It just means 1½, or halfway between 1 and 2 on (in this case) the y-axis.

(2,3) is a point on the line x = 2 three units above the x-axis.

Graphs are intended to be useful in interpreting equations or data sets.

Any two consecutive data points are connected with a straight line (for the graph of a linear equation) or a curved line (for the graph of a quadratic or higher-degree equation).

If you move vertically (parallel to the y-axis) up 4 and then down 7, you've ultimately moved down 3 units. 3 units straight up from (5,-5) is (5,-2), the starting point.