Fill in the Blanks to Complete the Statement $\mathrm { P } ( \mathrm { x } ) = - 0.3 ( \mathrm { x } - 10 ) ^ { 2 } - 5$

question 447

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks to complete the statement. The graph of $\mathrm { P } ( \mathrm { x } ) = - 0.3 ( \mathrm { x } - 10 ) ^ { 2 } - 5$ is a parabola openingــــــــــ and is ــــــــــ than that of $y = x ^ { 2 }$ .

• A) down; wider
• B) up; narrower
• C) down; narrower
• D) up; wider

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