SOLUTION: In the coordinates (5,-4) which number represents the y value? The answer to this is -4. The next question is "What are the coordinates of the origin?"

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Question 140781: In the coordinates (5,-4) which number represents the y value? The answer to this is -4. The next question is "What are the coordinates of the origin?"
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
That is correct.
The first variable in the ordered pair is x.
The second variable in the ordered pair is y.
THe origin is where the x axis and y axis cross.
That ordered pair is (0,0).

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