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The axes of any chart should be labelled. Usually the horizontal axis is the x-axis and the vertical axis is the y-axis. But, if you are given a square piece of graph paper with two axes on it and either a scatter plot or a line, and no labels nor data then you do not have a chance.

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The x-axis runs horizontal (left to right) and the y-axis runs vertical (up and down).

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by convention, x axis is horizontal (positive to right of origin)and y axis is vertical (positive above the origin)

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