Question

The coordinate grid shows the locations of four desks in an office. y 3 2 + Wendy 1 + Manager > X 5 -4 3-2 1 1 1 4 2 3 Abu 5 1 -- 2 + 3+ -4 Trey 5+ -6+ 7 (a) Write the ordered pair for each person's desk. (b) Which employee is the closest to the manager? Explain.

Answer 1

Given the question in the question tab, the following are the solution steps to answer the question.

STEP 1: Show the graph

STEP 2: Write the ordered pair for each person's desk.

The ordered pair for each person's desk is given as:

`\begin{gathered} \text{Wendy}\Rightarrow(-3,0) \\ \text{Trey}\Rightarrow(0,-4) \\ \text{Abu}\Rightarrow(2,0) \\ \text{Manager}\Rightarrow(0,0) \end{gathered}`

STEP 3: Get the employee closest to the manager

The employee closest to the manager is the person with the shortest possible distance from the Manager's coordinate either on the x-axis or the y-axis. Going by the ordered pairs of coordinates given above in Step 2, the closest employee to the Manager is Abu with the coordinate (2,0) because he only needs to move 2 steps on the x-axis to reach the Manager's coordinate.