The right-top side region in the two dimensional space is called the first quadrant.
Two number lines are bisected perpendicularly at their centre point in two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system for splitting the coordinate plane into four equal regions.
The right-top side region is called the first quadrant. The region in the angle $XOY$ is the first quadrant and represented by a Roman numeral $I$.
In $\angle XOY$, the $x$-axis and $y$-axis both represent positive values. Therefore, the signs of abscissa and ordinate of every point in this region must be positive.
If $x$-coordinate and $y$-coordinate of every point are represented by $x$ and $y$ respectively, then the values of them are written as $x > 0$ and $y > 0$ mathematically.
The first quadrant is used to identity the location of a point whose abscissa and ordinate are positive. Now, let’s learn how to use the first quadrant in the coordinate geometry.
Identify the location of the point $A(4, 3)$.
The $x$ coordinate (or abscissa) is $4$ and $y$ coordinate (or ordinate) is $3$ in this example.
In this way, the first quadrant of two dimensional Cartesian coordinate system is used for identifying the location of any point whose both abscissa and ordinate are positive.
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