NCERT Class 9 Mathematics

COORDINATE GEOMETRY 61

(iv)The point identified by the coordinates (2, – 4).

(v) The abscissa of the point D.

(vi)The ordinate of the point H.

(vii)The coordinates of the point L.

(viii) The coordinates of the point M.

Fig. 3.14

3.3 Plotting a Point in the Plane if its Coordinates are given

Uptil now we have drawn the points for you, and asked you to give their coordinates.
Now we will show you how we place these points in the plane if we know its coordinates.
We call this process “plotting the point”.

Let the coordinates of a point be (3, 5). We want to plot this point in the coordinate
plane. We draw the coordinate axes, and choose our units such that one centimetre
represents one unit on both the axes. The coordinates of the point (3, 5) tell us that the