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Question 174967: I need help understanding what the abscissa and the ordinate is in the ordered pair(12,-7)?
Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
its simply a definition.....there really is nothing to understand
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the abcissa is the x coordinate and the ordinate is the y coordinate so in the ordered pair (3,4)
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3 is the abcissa and 4 is the ordinate
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in (12,-7)
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abcissa is 12
ordinate is -7
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