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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Substitute 0 for

and then solve what is left for

, giving you some value for

such as

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is left as an exercise for the student). That gives you the coordinates of one ordered pair,

, which happens to lie somewhere on the

-axis -- hence the name

-intercept.\r
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and creating a second ordered pair, interestingly enough called the

-intercept, of the form

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