Question

The ordinate and abscissa of a point are −4 and 3. What are the coordinates of the point in $\left( {{\text{X,Y}}} \right)$ form.

Answer 1

Hint: In order to solve such types of questions, we should have remembered that the distance of any point from the y-axis scaled with the x-axis is known as the abscissa or x coordinate of the point. The distance of any point from the x-axis scaled with the y-axis is known as ordinate. The abscissa and ordinate all together are known as coordinates of that particular point.

Complete Step-by-Step solution:

As we know that

The horizontal line in the Cartesian plane is called the X-axis and the vertical line is called the Y-axis,
And we know that
Abscissa or the x-coordinate of any point is its distance from the Y-axis and the ordinate or the y-coordinate is its distance from the X-axis,
In other words, we can say,
ordinate is the point which lie on y−axis, and abscissa is the point which lie on x−axis

Therefore, required points $\left( {{\text{X,Y}}} \right)$ is = \[\left( {3, - 4} \right)\]

Note: Sometimes students get confused with ordinate and abscissa hence we can remember this thing as the coordinates are written in the small bracket (), where abscissa is written in the first position and then ordinate at the second position, they are separated by a comma. If x and y are abscissa and ordinate respectively, then the location of the point P in the Cartesian plane is expressed as $\left( {{\text{X,Y}}} \right)$.