Question

A company is paying a local television station to run its commercials. The cost for running commercials is a one-time campaign fee and also a per-second fee for the air time of each commercial. The cost can be modeled by the equation y = 500 + 50x where x is seconds.

What is the y-intercept and what does it represent?

A. 500; it represents the per-second fee of air time

B. 500; it represents the one-time campaign fee

C. 50; it represents the per-second fee of air time

D. 50; it represents the one-time campaign fee

Answer 1

Its b.
y = mx + b
m is the slope of 50 and b is the y or 500

Answer 2

Correct answer: ''500; it represents the one-time campaign fee''
Got it right on the test. (:

Answer 3

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