Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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5. The Coordinate Plane
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Exercise 2 Page 370

How many steps to the left of the origin is the point?

(-2,0)

Practice makes perfect
We want to find the coordinates of the point that is plotted on the coordinate plane.

Let's start with the x-coordinate. To find the x-coordinate of Point Q, we count the number of units that it is placed to the left of the origin.

We can see that Point Q is located on the x-axis, 2 units to the left of the origin. This means that its coordinates are x= -2 and y= 0. Let's write this as an (x,y) coordinate pair. ( -2, 0)