Consider the following three statements.

Statement-1 : The x-coordinate is called ordinate.

Statement-2 : The y-coordinate is called abscissa.

Statement-3 : To express the coordinates of a point in the cartesian plane, the abscissa comes first and then the ordinate comes.

Which of the following is true?

Statements 1 and 2 are true and statement 3 is false.

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Statements 1 and 2 are false and statement 3 is true.

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Statements 2 and 3 are true and statement 1 is false.

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All three statements are true.

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Solution

The correct option is B
Statements 1 and 2 are false and statement 3 is true.

x coordinate = abscissa.Hence, Statement 1 is false
y coordinate = ordinate.Hence, Statement 2 is false

By definition, only statement 3 is true.

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Consider the following two statements.
Statement-1 : A coordinate plane is also called Cartesian plane.
Statement-2 : The four quadrants are also called the coordinates axes.
Which of the following is true?

Consider the following two statements.
Statement-1: The point of intersection of the axes is called the ordinate.
Statement-2: The coordinate axes divide the plane into four quadrants.
Which of the following is true?

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The y–coordinate is also called as the abscissa.

Q. Which of the following are the coordinates of the point whose ordinate is 6 and abscissa is -3?

Question 1
Write whether the following statements are true or false? Justify your answer.
(i) Point (3,0) lies in the first quadrant.
(ii) Points (1, - 1) and (-1, 1) lie in the same quadrant.
(iii) The coordinates of a point whose ordinate is $- \frac{1}{2}$ and abscissa is 1 are $(- \frac{1}{2}, 1)$ .
(iv) A point lies on Y-axis at a distance of 2 units from the X-axis, its coordinates are (2,0).
(v) (-1,7) is a point in the second quadrant.

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The correct option is B Statements 1 and 2 are false and statement 3 is true. x coordinate = abscissa.Hence, Statement 1 is false y coordinate = ordinate.Hence, Statement 2 is false By definition, only statement 3 is true.

The correct option is B
Statements 1 and 2 are false and statement 3 is true.

x coordinate = abscissa.Hence, Statement 1 is false
y coordinate = ordinate.Hence, Statement 2 is false

By definition, only statement 3 is true.