Question

Jeremy walks into a video arcade with a pocketful of quarters. He spends them at a rate of four every quarter hour until he runs out. If the amount of of quarters Jeremy has is graphed overtime, which feature of the graph corresponds to Jeremy's initial amount of quarters, before he spends the first one ?

Answer Choices :
A. The y-intercept
B. The slope
C. The x-intercept
D. The minimum value

Answer 1

the answer is A as he has all of the quarters when he spends no time in the arcade

Answer 2

Answer: A. The y-intercept

Explanation:

Given : The amount of quarters Jeremy has is graphed overtime.

Usually we represent the independent variable (time) by x and dependent variable (quarters) by y.

The y-intercept is the point in the graph where the x coordinate is zero.

When x-coordinate is zero then the graph is representing the initial value.

Hence, the feature of the graph corresponds to Jeremy's initial amount of quarters, before he spends the first one is the y-intercept .