Mathematics GCSE
quadrants
What quadrants means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
The regions holding the branches: the first and third for positive k, the second and fourth for negative k.
The axes divide the plane into four quadrants, in which the signs of both coordinates follow set patterns.
Topics that use quadrants
- Graphs (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Area under a graph as an accumulated total
- Asymptote
- Asymptotes
- Asymptotes and domain restrictions
- average rate of change
- Chord
- Circle equation centred at the origin
- Coefficient
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