You work for the National Weather Service and are asked to study the average daily temperatures in Anchorage, Alaska. You calculate the mean of the average daily temperatures for each month. You decide to place the information on a graph in which the date is the input and the temperature is the output. You also decide that January 1950 will correspond to the month 0 as indicated by the dot on the input scale. On a coordinate plane, quadrants 1, 2, 3, and 4 are labeled. Month is on the x-axis and degrees Fahrenheit is on the y-axis.
Determine the quadrant in which you would plot the points that correspond to the following data:
The average daily temperature for January 1936 was Negative 15 degreesF.
a.
Quadrant III
b.
Quadrant IV
c.
Quadrant II
d.
Quadrant I