Timothy thinks the price of apples is increasing at the local grocery store. He decides to collect data on apple prices every week. After collecting data, he runs a linear regression and calculates the regression equation a(t) = 0.46 +0.097, where a (t) is the cost of an apple in dollars and t represents the
number of weeks
What is the y-intercept of the regression equation? What does it represent in the context of the situation?