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In general, any point that falls on the axes, is not considered to be in

any quadrant. This answer is used in most HS texts since it is simple and "works."

However, you can define things so that a point with

a single zero coordinate will either

(1) be common to the two adjacent quadrants, or

(2) be part of one and only one quadrant.

Here is how to do the second choice.

associate the

positive x-axis with quadrant I, the positive y-axis with quadrant II,

the negative x-axis with quadrant III, and the negative y-axis with

quadrant IV. Then what do we do about (0,0)? This is why the first answer works and if most often used. The other possibilities are only mentioned so you can see they exists.

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