Thanks for the explanation. It might be worth noting to Tinaa's friend that, when studying straight lines, "y-intercept" is often shortened to just "intercept". The Excel spreadsheet uses this terminology, for instance. This is because the y-intercept appears explicitly in the equation y=mx+b (it's b).

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