Trigonometry 7th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1111826854
ISBN 13: 978-1-11182-685-7

Chapter 1 - Section 1.2 - The Rectangular Coordinate System - 1.2 Problem Set - Page 23: 19

Answer

Quadrant 3

Work Step by Step

the ratio of $x/y$ is also always positive in quadrant 3, and now some may think that this cannot work because both values would be negative, however, one must remember that two negatives in a ratio form a positive, so the third quadrant located in the bottom left corner of a plane will always return a positive ratio of $x/y$
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