Question

When plotting points on the coordinate plane below, which point would lie on the x-axis?

(6, 0)
(0, 2)
(3, 8)
(5, 5)

Answer 1

Answer: (6,0)

Coordinate points are always written in pairs of the x- and y-coordinate: (x, y). Knowing this, the point would need to have a y-value of 0 in order to lie on the x-axis (otherwise, it would be on a random spot on the grid). The only coordinate point with a y-value of 0 is (6, 0). Therefore, the coordinate point (6, 0) lies on the x-axis.

Please refer to the attached graph below to see all the coordinate points.