Year 9 Maths — Coordinate geometry

Read and plot points on the coordinate plane and name the quadrant they lie in.

Name: ________________________

Before you start

The two axes cut the page into four quarters. Find out what each one is called — all four, in any order, nothing to get right.

They are numbered anticlockwise from the top right. Both coordinates are positive in the first and both are negative in the third.

1.In which quadrant does the point (5, -1) lie?
- a) Third
- b) Fourth
- c) First
- d) Second
2.A rectangle has corners at (0, 0), (6, 0), (6, 4) and (0, 4). What is its area, in square units?
3.Where does the point (0, 4) lie?
- a) On the y-axis
- b) In the first quadrant
- c) At the origin
- d) On the x-axis
4.How far is the point (6, 8) from the y-axis? Give just the number.
5.In which quadrant does the point (-4, 2) lie?
- a) Second
- b) Fourth
- c) First
- d) Third
6.What is the x-coordinate of the point (7, -3)?
7.In which quadrant does the point (3, 5) lie?
- a) First
- b) Second
- c) Third
- d) Fourth
8.In which quadrant does the point (-2, -6) lie?
- a) Fourth
- b) First
- c) Second
- d) Third