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Question
Plot the following point on the graph paper:
(−3, 2)
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Solution
The following point is given below.
(−3, 2)
Let X ' OX and Y' OY be the coordinate axes.
Here for the given point the abscissa is -3 units and ordinate is 2 units. The point is in the second quadrant. So it will look like as shown in the following figure.

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