3 Select the correct answer.
The number of ducks, in hundreds, in a residential area is modeled in the graph shown, where x is the number of years since 2002.
у
1,400
1,200
$1,000
800
Number of Ducks
600
400
200
0
4 6 8 10 12 14
Years Since 2002
What does the y-intercept represent?
ОА.
the number of ducks in 2002
OB.
the minimum number of ducks
OC. the rate of change in the number of ducks
OD. the number of years when the number of ducks was decreasing