What does x and y intercept mean?

Answer 1

Wherever the graph intersects the x-axis is the x intercept; wherever the graph intersects the y-axis is the y intercept.

Answer 2

X and Y intercepts are the points where the line cross the x axis and the y axis. You have the X line crossing at lets say 1 so that one is the point where the line cross the line. X=1

Answer 3

X intercept is the point at which a line or function crosses the X axis, and Y intercept is the point at which the line or function rosses the Y axis.

Answer 4

when y = 0, the value of x is the x intercept and vice versa for the other.

Essentially when you plot a line the intercepts are where the line crosses the x and y axis.

Answer 5

In mathematics, the Cartesian coordinate system is used to determine each point uniquely in a plane through two numbers, usually called the x-coordinate and the y-coordinate of the point. To define the coordinates, two perpendicular directed lines (the x-axis or abscissa and the y-axis or ordinate), are specified, as well as the unit length, which is marked off on the two axes .Cartesian coordinate systems are also used in space (where three coordinates are used) and in higher dimensions.

Using the Cartesian coordinate system geometric shapes (such as curves) can be described by algebraic equations, namely equations satisfied by the coordinates of the points lying on the shape. For example, the circle of radius 2 may be described by the equation x² + y² = 4.

Cartesian means relating to the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes (Latin: Cartesius), who, among other things, worked to merge algebra and Euclidean geometry. This work was influential in the development of analytic geometry, calculus, and cartography.

The idea of this system was developed in 1637 in two writings by Descartes. In part two of his Discourse on Method Descartes introduces the new idea of specifying the position of a point or object on a surface, using two intersecting axes as measuring guides. In La Géométrie, he further explores the above-mentioned concepts.

Answer 6

An x-intercept is a point on the graph where y is zero, and
a y-intercept is a point on the graph where x is zero.

Answer 7

The x intercept is when you make y=0 and find the value of x.
The y intercept is when you make x=0 and find the value of y.

The other answers are correct, they just didnt explain how to get it.

Answer 8

Coordinates of the points where the graph intersects the x and y axis.

Answer 9

their coordinates on a graph with x and y lines the horizontal one is x and the vertical one is y