What is the y intercept from the equation: y=-3x+8 Write your y intercept as an ordered pair WITH parenthesis. The y intercept is

Answer 1

The y intercept is what you get when you plug in x = 0

Similarly, the x intercepts are what you get when you plug in y = 0

So, because we're finding the y intercept, plug in 0 for x and solve for y.

You should get that y = 8.

x we said was 0.

Therefore, the y intercept is (0, 8)

Answer 2

The typical equation of a line is written in the form y = mx + b, where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept. Our equation is already in this form and we see that b, the y-intercept is 8. This means that the line crosses the y-axis when x = 0, so the coordinates of the y-intercept are (0,8).

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