Graphing in All Four Quadrants & Finding Distance

Graphing in All Four Quadrants & Finding Distance

Introduction

Graphing in all four quadrants means plotting points where x- and y-values can be positive or negative. The coordinate plane is divided into four sections called quadrants. Understanding a...

Jake is practicing graphing points on a coordinate plane. He must decide which of the four quadrants each point belongs in.

He looks at the point (2, 3) and says, “That one’s easy.”

But what if the points were (-2, 3), (-2, -3), or (2, -3)?

To solve this, Jake uses a helpful rule: the signs of x and y tell us which quadrant a ...