Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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5. The Coordinate Plane
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Exercise 24 Page 374

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

(4,0)

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 I, we count the number of units that it is placed to the right of the origin. Note that Point I lies on the x-axis. This means that its y-coordinate is 0.

We can see that Point I is located on the x-axis and 4 units to the right of the origin. This means that its coordinates are x= 4 and y= 0. Let's write this as an (x,y) coordinate pair. ( 4, 0)