An ordered pair that has a negative x-coordinate and a positive y-coordinate (-,+) would be plotted in which quadrant?
It would be in the IV quadrant
Any ordered pair in the third quadrant has negative x and y values. So (-1,-1), for example, is the third quadrant.
Quadrant 1: (1,5) Quadrant 2: (-2,3) Quadrant 3: (-3,-3) Quadrant 4:(4,-1)
ordered pair
An ordered pair of numbers on the coordinate plane denotes a point.
An ordered pair that has a negative x-coordinate and a positive y-coordinate would be plotted in the second quadrant (II). In this quadrant, the x-coordinate is negative and the y-coordinate is positive.
Upper left quadrant
The quadrants formed by the x and y axes are numbered anticlockwise from the quadrant in which both coordinates are positive (which is quadrant I). Thus negative x and positive y is in the quadrant II.
It would be in the IV quadrant
quadrant one
Quadrants are numbered 1st - 4th starting at the top right and going anticlockwise. So a positive x and a negative y coordinate would be in the fourth quadrant.
Ordered pairs that have a negative x and a positive y are in the second quadrant.
The normal convention used in the Cartesian coordinate system is that everything above the x axis is positive and everything below the x axis is negative, and everything to the right of the y axis is positive, and everything to the left of the y axis is negative (the two axes are themselves neither positive nor negative, they represent zero). Since points on a graph are identified by an ordered number pair, giving first the value of x and then the value of y, there are two numbers; you can have two positive numbers, or you can have one positive and one negative number, or you can have two negative numbers. The point that you are graphing will be located in the appropriate quadrant of the graph. Two positives are in the upper right hand quadrant, two negatives are in the lower left hand quadrant, and a positive and a negative can be either the upper left hand quadrant or the lower right hand quadrant.
Points located in the first quadrant of a Cartesian coordinate system have both coordinates ('x' and 'y') positive, i.e. equal to or greater than zero.
-,-
(8, 8)
IV