What is the y-intercept of the line?

x 16 24 32
y 44 64 84

The y-intercept of the line is 2

Step-by-step explanation:

You could try to find the slope of the line and then find the intercept with y axis by sloving b = y - ax

But here it seems easy enough once you see that the x values in the table increase by a factor of 8 and the y values in the table increase by a factor of 20.

(By the way, this is enough to give you the slope, because it is 8/20 ). But why bother?

Just extrapolate the table to the left, and you will find the y value where x = 0

x 0 8 16 24 32

y 2 22 44 64 84

So the y-intercept of the line is 2.

Extra:

The full equation of the line is:

y = 8/20x + 2

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step-by-step explanation:

because there are always 10 numbers in a phone number.