Why should the graph starts at zero?

The sales totals at macy's food store have increased exponentially over the months. which of these best shows the sales in the first three months?

Danielle earns a 7.25% commission on everything she sells at the electronics store where she works. she also earns a base salary of $750 per week. what were her sales last week if her total earnings for the week were $1,076.25?

Lin is writing an equation to model the proportional relationship between y, the total cost in dollars of downloading videos from a website, and x, the number of videos downloaded. she knows that the total cost to download 3 videos was $12. her work to find the equation is shown below. joylin’s work step 1 k= 3/12= 0.25 step 2 y= 0.25x where did joylin make her first error?