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Question 173522: What is the relationship between the number of lines and the number of kilometers on the grid?
Why was it so important to plot the originals points accrately?
Answer by midwood_trail(310)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! What is the relationship between the number of lines and the number of kilometers on the grid?
I assume you are talking about the coordinate plane, right?
I would let x = the number of lines and y = the number of kilometers for this example.
So, for example, if we are given the value of x to be 7 lines, we could figure out how many kilometers this amount of lines represents in terms of the y-axis by plotting the point in the form (x,y) correctly on the coordinate plane.
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Why was it so important to plot the originals points accrately?
For example, if we let x = 4 and y = 3 and plot the point (4,3), we would be further away from the origin [the point (0, 0)] on the coordinate plane and thus closer to the x-axis.
The point (4,3) is very different, say, from the point (3,4), which is a point closer to the origin and higher above the x-axis.
It is very important to learn how to plot points correctly.
It will make your math journey very easy regardless of course.
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