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There is no greatest value on either axis - they go on forever.
However, when drawing a graph or chart, choose your scale so that each unit is a sensible measure, which depends upon the amount of space you have to draw your graph in and the largest value that needs to be shown, and then mark sensible intervals.
When using graph paper, you should notice that there are big squares, ½ big squares and little squares marked, the bigger squares being marked by thicker lines. The ½ big squares are marked every 5 little squares and the big squares marked every 10 little squares.
To decide the largest value on an axis, count how many big squares long the axis is, multiply by 10 (to get how many little squares there are) and divide this into the largest value you need to display and round the result UP to the next sensible measure. A sensible measure is 1, 2, 5, 10, 0.5, 0.2, 0.1 etc for each little square - the sensible measure is so that it is easy to sub-divide each little square for values that are not exact multiples so that part way along the little squares can be drawn. Each axis is usually labelled at each big square, so the largest value written would depend upon how many big squares there are.
Graph paper is printed at different scales, but a common one is that each little square is 2 mm, each ½ big square is 1 cm and each big square is 2 cm.
There is no greatest value: the axis can go on forever - for example in a graph of y = x^2 or y = 1/x (x>0) or y = tan(x) (-pi/2<x<pi/2).
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What is the vertical number line on the coordinate plane called?
Vertical is the Y-Axis Horizontal is the X-Axis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vertical is up to down Horizontal is left to right
What is the horizontal axis and vertical axis on a graph called?
horizontal:x vertical: y
What is the x axis and the y axis?
In classical Cartesian algebra, the x axis is defined as a horizontal number line defining the distance from a zero point called the "origin." The y axis is a vertical line defining the vertical distance from the same origin. This system has been adapted to define axes on any number of graphing systems, from Microsoft Excel to modern machine tools.
What is the a vertical scale?
What is the scale vertical axis
How is the vertical axis labeled?
The y-axis
The vertical number line in a Cartesian coordinate system is called the vertical?
axis
The coordinate plane is formed by the intersection of a vertical and a horizontal number line. What is the horizontal number line called?
It is called the x axis and the vertical number line is the y axis
What is the vertical number line on the coordinate plane called?
Vertical is the Y-Axis Horizontal is the X-Axis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vertical is up to down Horizontal is left to right
What Is The Other Name For Vertical Number Line?
The y axis on the Cartesian plane is a vertical number line
What is a x axis and a y axis?
A y-axis is the vertical number line of a two coordinated graph and a x-axis is the horizontal number line.
What the vertical number lines is called?
its the y-axis
What is another name for the vertical number line?
The vertical axis. In 2-d coordinate geometry it would be the y axis, in 3-d it would be the z-axis.
The horizontal or vertical number line on the coordinate plane?
The horizontal number line on a coordinate plane is called the x-axis, and the vertical number line on a coordinate plane is called the y-axis.
Which is shown on the y-axis on a graph?
A vertical number line
Is the X axis on the horizontal or vertical axis?
The x axis is the horizontal axis. The y axis is the vertical axis.
Is a vertical like on the Y axis or the X axis?
The vertical axis is the y-axis. The horizontal axis is the x-axis.
What is the name of a vertical line on a graph?
The name of a vertical line is simply named by the number on the x axis it is on.
