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Felicia paid $125 to join a tennis club. She pays an additional $5 every time she uses on of the tennis club occurs.

State what x and y represent in context

What is the y-intercept for the question and explain what it represents in context​

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You can model the situation you described as


y=125+5x

Where
y represents the money spent, and
x the number of uses.

The
y intercept is 125, which represents the money spent without using the club even once. In fact, to find it you set
x=0, i.e. zero usage.

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