Question

The point P(x,y) lies on the terminal side of an angle θ = -60° in standard posistion. What are the signs of the values of x and y?

Answer 1

x-values ---> positive

y-values ---> negative

Explanation:

We know that the point (x, y) lies on the terminal side of an angle which is equal to negative 60° in the standard position.

So if we take a look at the quadrants of a graph (in the attached picture), we can see that the first quadrant starts from zero degrees and goes up till 90 degrees.

Therefore, if angle is negative and below 90 degrees, then it will be in the fourth quadrant and so the x-values will be positive and the y-values will be negative.