Digging further back into our decaying memories of high school (sorry, for some of us high school was a long time ago), we remember that the intercept is interpreted as “the value of y that you get wh...Digging further back into our decaying memories of high school (sorry, for some of us high school was a long time ago), we remember that the intercept is interpreted as “the value of y that you get when x=0”. Similarly, a slope of m means that if you increase the x-value by 1 unit, then the y-value goes up by m units; a negative slope means that the y-value would go down rather than up.
Digging further back into our decaying memories of high school (sorry, for some of us high school was a long time ago), we remember that the intercept is interpreted as “the value of y that you get wh...Digging further back into our decaying memories of high school (sorry, for some of us high school was a long time ago), we remember that the intercept is interpreted as “the value of y that you get when x=0”. Similarly, a slope of m means that if you increase the x-value by 1 unit, then the y-value goes up by m units; a negative slope means that the y-value would go down rather than up.