Your home is located at the point (6, 4). Which of these numbers is the x-coordinate? Which is the y-coordinate?
6 is the x-coordinate;
4 is the y-coordinate.
How far from the origin, (0, 0), is the point (6, 4)?
6 units to the right,
and 4 units up.
What are the coordinates of the movie theater?
What path will take you from your home to the movie theater?
4 units to the left, and 1 unit down.
The movie theater and the park are reflected points. Which axis can you reflect the movie theater point over to get the park point?
Which coordinate changed after the reflection over the x-axis?
How did it change?
It changed from positive to negative.
The movie theater and park are on the same vertical line. Think of the x-axis as zero on a vertical number line that connects these points. What is the distance between the movie theater and the x-axis?
What is the distance between the park and the x-axis?
Why is 3, and not –3, the distance between the park and the x-axis?
Distance is always positive.
What is the total distance between the movie theater and the park?
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