The abscissa occurs in a point whose location is identified by an ordered pair. The question refers to a single number: -34.
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The abscissa is the X coordinate of a point, so a point on the Y axis has an abscissa of zero.
It is 0.
The ordinate and abscissa are equal for every point on the line [ y = x ].
An abscissa is the distance of a point from the vertical axis. In the standard 2-dimensional Cartesian plane, it is the x coordinate.
In the first case the point has positive abscissa as well as ordinate, whereas in the second, the abscissa is negative. But nothing "happens". The world does not end!