alleryStart learning →The word quadrant has a root meaning:
AIt means ten
BIt means four
CIt means two
DIt means eight
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. It means four
1. The name of the region encodes how many there are.
2. The axes divide the plane into four regions called quadrants.
3. Quadrant has the root quad.
4. That root means four.
_Source: OpenStax Elementary Algebra 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 4 'Graphs', sections 4.1-4.7_
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