A student rode a bike from their house to the neighborhood recreation center. The graph shows the student’s distance from the recreation center after riding the bike for x minutes.



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What is the y-intercept of the graph and what does it mean in context?



A student rode a bike from their house to the neighborhood recreation center. The graph shows the student’s distance from the recreation center after riding the bike for x minutes.



Image: Texas Education Agency, Public Domain



What is the y-intercept of the graph and what does it mean in context?

(0,28); it took 28 minutes for the student to get to the recreation center.

(9,0); when the student began biking to the recreation center they were 9 miles away.

(28,0); it took 28 minutes for the student to get to the recreation center.

(0,9); when the student began biking to the recreation center they were 9 miles away.

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(28,0); it took 28 minutes for the student to get to the recreation center.
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(0,9); when the student began biking to the recreation center they were 9 miles away.