The x-coordinate represents the horizontal shift, starting from the origin, and the y-coordinate represents the vertical shift.
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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, C(0,-4), this means tracing four units in the negative vertical direction starting from the origin.
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