Aisha is ordering a taxi from an online taxi service. She has to pay a flat charge just to
order the taxi, and then has to pay per mile, depending on how far she travels. She
wrote an equation to represent her total cost, y = 2.8x + 2, where y represents the
total cost in dollars and cents, and a represents the number of miles she travels,
What could the number 2 represent in the equation?