Refer to the Graph of the Function and Complete the Statements

question 267

Multiple Choice

Refer to the graph of the function and complete the statements.
-The graph is increasing over the interval(s) ــــــــــــــــــــ
The graph is decreasing over the interval(s) ــــــــــــــــــــــــ

• A) Never increasing; \(( - \infty , - 3 ) \cup ( - 3 , \infty )\)
• B) \(( - \infty , 3 ) \cup ( 3 , \infty )\); Never decreasing
• C) Never increasing; \(( - \infty , 3 ) \cup ( 3 , \infty )\)
• D) \(( - \infty , - 3 ) \cup ( - 3 , \infty )\); Never decreasing

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