standard_description: Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates. Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., x-axis and x-coordinate, y-axis and y-coordinate).
problem_activity: Label the second quadrant on the coordinate plane, and then answer the following questions.
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a.   Write the coordinates of one point that lies in the second quadrant of the coordinate plane.
b.    What must be true about the coordinates of any point that lies in the second quadrant?
c.    Plot and label the following points:
$${A: (-4, 6)}$$
$${B: (6, -4)}$$
$${C: (0, -2)}$$
$${D: (2, 0)}$$
$${E: (-5, -3)}$$


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