Question

Write the answer of each of the following questions:
(i) What is the name of horizontal the vertical lines drawn to determine the position of any point in the Cartesian plane ?
(ii) What is the name of each part of the plane formed by these two lines.

(iii) What is the point of intersection these lines called?

Answer 1

1.The horizontal line is known as $x-axis$ and the vertical line is known as $y-axis.$

2. These parts are known as: $1st,2nd,3rd$ and $4th$ quadrants.

3. When these two lines intersect, it is known as intersecting point and also this is the origin point i.e $(x,y)=(0,0)$