The horizontal line is the x axis and the vertical line is the y axis.
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They are the x and y axes
The x and y axes on the Cartesian plane intersect at the origin at right angles
You first look at each axes
When the x and y axes meet ar right angles on the Cartesian plane then it is at the point of origin which is at (0, 0)
Its other name is the Cartesian plane and it was the French mathematician Rene Descartes who first conceived of the idea of x and y axes on the coordinate plane