Question

True or False.

In the polar coordinates$(r,\theta )$,$r$can be negative.

Short answer

True

Step-by-step solution

Step 1. State that the statement is true or false

To graph a point in polar coordinates $(r,\theta )$, we have to know that $r$is the distance between the point and the origin and $\theta$ is the angle with respect to the polar axis, now when the value of $r$ is negative the point is located in the opposite sense of the angle, and if$\theta$ is negative this means that the angle is taken on the clockwise sense