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7-12 vocab.
Chapter one vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Graph | a point in a plane |
| x-axis | Horizontal line on graph |
| y-axis | vertical line on a graph |
| ordered pair | A symbol the specifies the order in which two numbers occur. |
| Abscissa | The first number in an ordered pair as indicated on a number-line graph, the horizontal coordinates on the graph. |
| ordinate | the second number in an ordered pair;the vertical coordinate system on a graph. |
| coordinates | numbers corresponding to points on a graph. |
| Cartesian Coordinate System | A system of plotting the values on a graph. Named after Rene Descartes of France. |
| Quadrants | One of the four regions in a cartesian Coordinate system. |
| Scale | Scale on two axes for example you can put down every five units. |
| Rise and Run. | is going from one point to another in a cartesian coordinate system.The run is the change in x and the rise is the change in Y. |
| slope intercept form. | an equation of the form y=mx+b where m and b are constants is in slope intercept form. The constant m is the slop and b is y intercept. |