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Making Connections Glossary
quadrants  
  The coordinate plane is divided by its axes into four quadrants.  The quadrants are numbered as shown in the first diagram below.  When graphing data that has no negative values, sometimes a graph that shows only the first quadrant is used.
   
quadrilateral  
  A polygon with four sides.  The shape below is a quadrilateral.
   
quartile  
  Along with the median, the quartiles divide a set of data into four groups of the same size.
quotient  
  The result of a division problem.