Question

What is the y-intercept of the function,represented by the table of values below?

Answer 1

Answer:

So the y-intercept is 10.

Step-by-step explanation:

So your table doesn't out right say the y-intercept.  If it did it would be (x=0,y=something).

So let's see if this is linear. I'm going to see if we have the same rise/run ratio per pair of points as shown in the attachment:

These ratios are all the same -6/3 = -2/1 = -4/2 = -6/3 . These are all equal to -2.

So this is a line.

Linear equations in the form y=mx+b is called slope-intercept form where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept.

We just found m to be -2.

So our equation is now in the form y=-2x+b.

We can find b, the y-intercept, by using a point on this line.  I like (4,2) from the table.

(x,y)=(4,2) with y=-2x+b will give us the information we need to find b.

2=-2(4)+b

2=-8+b

2+8=b

10=b

b=10

So the y-intercept is 10.