Question

Can you please explain what a y and x intercept is?

Answer 1

Simply speaking, it is where the line crosses the y or x axes

Answer 2

so at the crossing point on a graph?

Answer 3

oh I see so these number can be different.
so in a straight line it is where two numbers graphed cross both x and y?

Answer 4

in a straight line, it is two points \((0,y)\) where it crosses the \(y\) axis and \((x,0)\) where it crosses the \(x\) axis

Answer 5

so it has to cross where 0 is? where the crossing point on the graph is? sorry I am trying to help my daughter and it has been so long that I do not remember this stuff!

Answer 6

Ya you've got the right idea @honda123. Think about it as "the point where the line "intercepts" the y axis." So, as Satellite said, the y intercept will have an x-coordinate of 0, and y can vary, depending on how high up or how low that crossing point is.