SOLUTION: When writing a rule for a function on a table, how do you find the y-intercept if x skips 0. x. f(x) -2 9 1. 6 4. 3 7.

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Question 1032369: When writing a rule for a function on a table, how do you find the y-intercept if x skips 0.
x. f(x)
-2 9
1. 6
4. 3
7. 0

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You plot them first: 



Then you look and see what you'd have if you connected them.
Looks like you'd get a straight line.

So you connect them:



And it looks like the y-intercept, (the point where the line intercepts
the y-axis) is the point (0,7), in green below:



Edwin