Fill in Each Blank with the Appropriate Response $y = - 6 ( x - 2 ) ^ { 2 } + 8$

question 162

Multiple Choice

Fill in each blank with the appropriate response.
-The graph of $y = - 6 ( x - 2 ) ^ { 2 } + 8$ can be obtained from the graph of $y = x ^ { 2 }$ by shifting horizontallyــــــــــ units to theـــــــــــ , vertically stretching by a factor ofــــــــــ , reflecting across the ــــــــــــ-axis, and shifting vertically ـــــــــunits in the ــــــــdirection.

• A) 2; right; 8; y; 6; downward
• B) 2; right; 8; x; 6; upward
• C) 2; right; 6; x; 8; upward
• D) 2; left; 6; x; 8; upward

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