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Terra has been working on the time it takes her to run a mile. She recorded the time it takes her to run a mile in the table shown below, where x represents the number of months since she started recording her time, and y represents the time it takes Terra to run a mile, in seconds.

table
0 1 2 3 4 5
610 600 590 580 570 560

Interpret the y-intercept.

A.
It took Terra 610 seconds to run a mile when she started recording her time.

B.
It took Terra 640 seconds to run a mile when she started recording her time.

C.
It took Terra 560 seconds to run a mile when she started recording her time.

D.
It took Terra 620 seconds to run a mile when she started recording her time.

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A. At the beginning it took her 610 seconds, or 10:10

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