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Explain what the intercepts mean in terms of the context and how to find them.

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Intercepts in terms of graphing are considered to be points at which a function crosses an axis. In the standard x and y graph (the Cartesian coordinate grid), one would find the intercepts by simply plugging in the value of 0 for either the x or the y to find either the y or x intercept respectively. For example, to find the y-intercept, you want to find (0,y) and to find the x-intercept, you want to find (x,0).

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