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Simone claims the initial value and y-intercept are the same thing on a graph. is she correct? if you know that a line has a slope of and a y-intercept of 7, what is the equation for that line in slope-intercept form?

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Hector and alex traded video games. alex gave hector one fourth of his video games in exchange for 6 video games. then he sold 3 video games and gave 2 video games to his brother. alex ended up with 16 video games. how many video games did alex have when he started?