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document.write( "\"Abscissa\" is another name for \"x-coordinate\"\r\n" );
document.write( "\"Ordinate\" is another name for \"y-coordinate\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "Look at this graph of the point (3,2)\r\n" );
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document.write( "The 3 is called the abscissa, and the 2 is called the ordinate.\r\n" );
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document.write( "In this picture the red line, which is 3 units long,\r\n" );
document.write( " is the abscissa and the green line, which is 2 units\r\n" );
document.write( "long, is the ordinate:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Together the abscissa, 3, and the ordinate, 2, make up \r\n" );
document.write( "the two coordinates of the point (3,2)\r\n" );
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