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Part EWhat is a possible explanation for why the y-intercept is negative for all three functions?

Part EWhat is a possible explanation for why the y-intercept is negative for all three-example-1
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Answer:

The restaurants incur costs to prepare meals, such as labor and supplies, before any meals are sold. So, the restaurants will lose money until they sell a number of meals equal to the first x-intercept.

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In this problem

x -----> number of meals sold

y ----> profit

Remember that

the y-intercept is the value of y, when the value of x is zero

In this context

the y-intercept is the value of the profit when the restaurant begin or start to sell meals

In this case, the y-intercept is negative, which means when the restaurant started, there have a negative profit (loss) {the cost is greater than the revenue) because the number of meals sold is zero.

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