Question

Write the abscissa of the following point $( - 2,4)$.

Answer 1

Hint: As we know that in the above question we have to find the abscissa of the following point. In this question we will first understand what abscissa is and also the ordinate of the given point. We can say that the distance from the $y - $axis is the abscissa of the point and the distance from the $x - $axis is the ordinate.

Complete step-by-step answer:
In the given question we have $( - 2,4)$.
Basically abscissa is the distance from a point to the vertical or $y - $ axis, measured parallel to the horizontal or $x$-axis. Or we can say that the $x - $axis is called the abscissa of the point.
So according to the above definition, in $( - 2,4)$, we know that $ - 2$is on the $x$- axis. So we can say that the $ - 2$ is the abscissa of the given point.
Hence the required value is $ - 2$ is the abscissa of the point $( - 2,4)$.
So, the correct answer is “-2”.

Note: We should know that a straight line from an appointment drawn parallel to one coordinate axis and met the other, especially a coordinate measured parallel to the vertical is ordinate or we can say that the $y$- axis is called the ordinates. We should not get confused between the abscissa and the ordinates. The abscissa is the $x$-axis and the ordinate is the $y$- axis.