Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 7
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4. Writing and Solving Proportions
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Exercise 4 Page 208

In an ordered pair, the x-coordinate comes first and the y-coordinate comes second.

Practice makes perfect
In an ( x, y) ordered pair, the first number tells us the x-coordinate of the point and the second number tells us the y-coordinate of the point. To graph B( - 3, 0), we first find -3 on the x-axis and make a mental note of this grid line. The x-coordinate -3 tells us to move 3 units to the left of the origin — the negative horizontal direction.

The y-coordinate 0 tells us not to move from the x-axis.

The point B( - 3, 0) lies on the point at which the grid line corresponding to x-coordinate -3 intersects the x-axis.