Suppose you start at the origin, move along the x-axis a distance of $6$ units in the positive direction, and then move downward a distance of $1$ units. What are the coordinates of your position?
A) $( 6,1,0 )$
B) $( 6,0 , - 1 )$
C) $( 6,0,1 )$
D) $( 6 , - 1,0 )$
E) $( 0,6,1 )$

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Moving along the x-axis a distance of $6$ units in the positive direction takes you to the point $(6,0,0)$. Moving downward a distance of $1$ unit from there takes you to the point $(6,0,-1)$. Therefore, the coordinates of your position are $(6,0,-1)$, which corresponds to choice B.

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