The x-coordinate represents the horizontal shift, starting from the origin, and the y-coordinate represents the vertical shift.
Graph:
Location: On negative y-axis.
Practice makes perfect
An ( x, y) ordered pair is plotted in a coordinate plane by finding the x-coordinate on the horizontal axis and the y-coordinate on the vertical axis. For the given point, B( 0, -3), this means tracing zero units in the positive horizontal direction, then three units in the negative vertical direction.
In this case, we can see that B is on the negative y-axis.
