Dis is applied maths, i have no clue what im doing

What is the y-intercept of the graph of the equation y=3(2^x)

Thompson and thompson is a steel bolts manufacturing company. their current steel bolts have a mean diameter of 127 millimeters, and a variance of 36. if a random sample of 35 steel bolts is selected, what is the probability that the sample mean would differ from the population mean by greater than 0.5 millimeters? round your answer to four decimal places.

A50% increase followed by 33 1/2% decrease