The cost of a service call to fix a washing machine can be expressed by the linear function , where y represents the total cost and x represents the number of hours it takes to fix the machine. What does the y-intercept represent?

A florist shop represents its first month’s sales with the equation , where x represents the number of days that the shop is open and y represents the sales in dollars. The owner of the shop would like to calculate the number of days it took to reach $3,200 in sales. Which would be used to solve the problem?

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