Question

Scientists have steadily increased the amount of grain that farms can produce each year. The yield for farms in France is given by y=−2.73x2+11000x−11000000 where x is the year and y is the grain yield in kilograms per hectare (kg/ha).

What does the y-intercept of this function represent?

Answer 1

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Answer:

the yield in year 0

Explanation:

The y-value is the yield for farms in France in year x. The y-value when x=0 is the yield for farms in France in year 0.

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Additional comment

The reasonable domain for this function is approximately 1843 ≤ x ≤ 2186. The function is effectively undefined for values of x outside this domain, so the y-intercept is meaningless by itself.