How do you plot the point X(1,10) on a coordinate plane?

1 Answer
Aug 28, 2015

You use the point's x and y-coordinates to plot it.

Explanation:

The general form of a point A is given as

color(blue)(A(x"-coordinate", y"-coordinate"))" ", where

x-coordinate tells you what the point's coordinate is on the x-axis;
y-coordinate tells you what the point's coordinate is on the y-axis.

In your case, you know that point "X" is given to you as

"X"(1, 10)

This means that if you start from the origin of the coordonate axes, you need to go one unit on the x-axis to x=1 and ten units on the y-axis to y=10.

Here's how your point would look

graph{(x-1)^2 + (y-10)^2 <= 1/50 [-8.06, 9.72, 3.91, 12.8]}

An alternative way of thinking about this is that your point is the intersection of the vertical line that goes through x=1 and the horizontal line that goes through y = 10.