How to find the y-intercept on a scientific calculator?

Given that (x-3) is a factor of f(x)=x^3+ax^2-x-6, find a and hence the number of real roots or the equation f(x)=0

Jayda's house is located at (1, 5). she can walk in a straight line to get to cristian's house. a fast-food restaurant is located at (11, 0) and partitions the way from jayda's house to cristian's house by a ratio of 5: 1. find the coordinate of cristian's house. me . im a little stuck

The number of chocolate chips in an 18-ounce bag of chocolate chip cookies is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 1252 chips and standard deviation 129 chips. (a) what is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains between 1100 and 1500 chocolate chips, inclusive? (b) what is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains fewer than 1125 chocolate chips? (c) what proportion of bags contains more than 1225 chocolate chips? (d) what is the percentile rank of a bag that contains 1425 chocolate chips?