Fill in the Blanks to Complete the Statement $\mathrm { P } ( \mathrm { x } ) = - 0.4 ( \mathrm { x } - 7 ) ^ { 2 }$

question 509

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks to complete the statement. The graph of $\mathrm { P } ( \mathrm { x } ) = - 0.4 ( \mathrm { x } - 7 ) ^ { 2 }$ is a parabola with ــــــــــ $x$ -intercept(s) . Its vertex is theــــــــــ point of the graph and has coordinatesــــــــــــــــ

• A) no; maximum (or highest); \(( - 0,4,7 )\)
• B) one; minimum (or lowest); \(( 7,0 )\)
• C) two; maximum (or highest); \(( 7,0 )\)
• D) one; maximum (or highest); \(( 7,0 )\)

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