A movie theater is offering a special summer pass. Passholders pay a one time initial fee of $8 and are charged a rate of $4 per movie after that. What is the starting value / y-intercept? * 1 point

Answer 1

Probably it's 8 or 4. And as $8 is the initial fee, that sounds like the starting value. :-)

The line equation you need is the slope intercept form y = mx + b where m = gradient and b = y intercept.

In this case, y = 4x + 8 where x = number of movies seen, and y = total cost in $

For this line m = 4 and b = 8. Hence, indeed, the y intercept is 8.