Question 1 - Think and Reflect (Page 7) - Quadrants - Chapter 1 Class 9 - Orienting Yourself: The Use of Coordinates (Ganita

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Question 1 - Think and Reflect (Page 7) What is the x-coordinate of a point on the y-axis? Let’s choose any point on the y-axis It’s coordinate is (0, 2). Similarly, we can choose (0, –3) or even (0, 0). We observe that the x-coordinate is 0 x This is because x-coordinate is the distance we move left or right from the origin. Since y-axis is at the origin itself, we do not move left or right at all