The convention for an x-y graph is as follows:
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x
where the x-axis is horizontal and the y-axis is vertical.
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The combination of a horizontal axis and a vertical axis is called a Cartesian coordinate system, or in short, a graph.
A synonym for the y-axis is the vertical axis. In math, a graph has a vertical and a horizontal axis. Another name for the horizontal axis is the x -axis.
Time on horizontal, Distance on Vertical
The x-axis is the horizontal axis on a graph. The y-axis is the vertical axis on a graph.
If you are graphing the results of an experiment, the dependent variable is on the vertical, or y-axis, and the independent variable is on the horizontal axis, or x-axis.