What is the horizontal distance from (-3, 1) to y-axis?

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What is the horizontal distance from (-3, 1) to y-axis?

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Answer 1 · 2016-11-11T21:41:15

Horizontal distance to the Y-axis from $(-3,1)$ is
$color(green)(-3)$ if distances are assumed to be measured to the right; or
$color(green)(3)$ if we are only looking at absolute distances.

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For a coordinate in the form $(color(red)(x),color(blue)(y))$
$color(white)("XXX")color(red)(x)$ is the (horizontal) distance to the right of the Y-axis;
$color(white)("XXX")color(blue)(y)$ is the (vertical) distance above the X-axis
[This is a basic definition].

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