The following animation examines intercept. The intercept for a line is the y-value at which the line crosses the y-axis, marked by a vertical green line segment below. The y-intercept is tracked by the red square in the animation below. The intercept can be a whole number or a fraction. Use the following animation to answer the questions further below. The numerical value of the intercept can be seen in the upper RIGHT hand corner of the graph. Note that the slope of the line can be any value: in the animation below many different slopes are depicted. The value of the slope is "independent" of the y-intercept.
Developed by Dana Lee Ling with the support and funding of a U.S. Department of Education Title III grant and the support of the College of Micronesia - FSM. Notebook material ©1999 College of Micronesia - FSM. For further information on this site, contact dleeling@comfsm.fm. Designed and run on a Gateway GP6-350 with 64 MB RAM, Windows 98 OS using MathView 2.5, Microsoft FrontPage 98, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0. All equipment and software purchased through a U.S. Dept. of Education Title III grant.