Fill in the Blanks to Complete the Statement $P ( x ) = 2 ( x - 8 ) ^ { 2 } - 4$

question 160

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blanks to complete the statement. The graph of $P ( x ) = 2 ( x - 8 ) ^ { 2 } - 4$ is a parabola with axis of symmetryــــــــــــ and vertexــــــــــــــــــــ

• A) \(x = 2 ; ( - 8 , - 4 )\)
• B) \(x = 8 ; ( 8 , - 4 )\)
• C) \(( - 8 , - 4 ) ; x = - 8\)
• D) \(x = 8 ; ( - 8 , - 4 )\)

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