Question

Stevens works at a large home appliance store . He earns a base salary of $20,000 plus commission which can be modeled by the equation y = 0.1x + 20,000. What is the meaning of the y-intercept in the equation ?

Answer 1

it is b or 20,000 or it is the base salary, you can put all 3 to be safe since they are all technichaly the same.

Explanation:

so y=mx+B is the equation right here m the slope which is rise over run or y/x=.1 and B is the y inercept and 20,000 it is the starting point on the graph. where it overlaps with the y axis, in this case 20,000 which as it says earlier is his base salary