Plz help me this is 7th grade math

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Simone claims the initial value and y-intercept are the same thing on a graph. is she correct? if you know that a line has a slope of and a y-intercept of 7, what is the equation for that line in slope-intercept form?

Shane and abha earned a team badge that required their team to collect no less than 20002000 cans for recycling. abha collected 178178 more cans than shane did.