What quadrant is the coordinate (2,4) in?

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What quadrant is the coordinate (2,4) in?

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Answer 1 · 2016-04-11T17:26:49

For the Cartesian coordinate axes, we have the following depiction:

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For quadrant $I$ $"I"$ , the coordinates are both positive, i.e. you have $(x, y)$ $(x,y)$ where $x, y > 0$ $x,y > 0$ . So, it is in the upper-right.

For quadrant $II$ $"II"$ , you have $(x, y)$ $(x,y)$ where $y > 0$ $y > 0$ but $x < 0$ $x < 0$ . So, it is in the upper-left.

For quadrant $III$ $"III"$ , the coordinates are both negative, i.e. you have $(x, y)$ $(x,y)$ where $x, y < 0$ $x,y < 0$ . So, it is in the lower-left.

For quadrant $IV$ $"IV"$ , you have $(x, y)$ $(x,y)$ where $x > 0$ $x > 0$ but $y < 0$ $y < 0$ . So, it is in the lower-right.

Using that information, I'll bounce the question back to you: what quadrant is $(2, 4)$ $(2,4)$ in? For this, $x = 2$ $x = 2$ and $y = 4$ $y = 4$ ; that is, $x$ $x$ is two units to the right of $0$ $0$ , and $y$ $y$ is four units above $0$ $0$ .

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