Fill in the blanks to complete the statement. The graph of $\mathrm { P } ( \mathrm { x } ) = 6 ( \mathrm { x } - 9 ) ^ { 2 } - 7$ is a parabola with axis of symmetry ــــــــــــــــand vertexـــــــــــــــــــــــ
A) $x = 9 ; ( 9 , - 7 )$
B) $\ { x = 6 ; ( - 9 , - 7 ) }$
C) $( - 9 , - 7 ) ; x = - 9$
D) $x = 9 ; ( - 9 , - 7 )$

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The axis of symmetry for a parabola in the form $y = a(x - h)^2 + k$ is $x = h$, and the vertex is at the point $(h, k)$. For the given equation, $h = 9$ and $k = -7$, so the axis of symmetry is $x = 9$ and the vertex is $(9, -7)$.

Fill in the Blanks to Complete the Statement P(x)=6(x−9)2−7\mathrm { P } ( \mathrm { x } ) = 6 ( \mathrm { x } - 9 ) ^ { 2 } - 7P(x)=6(x−9)2−7

Fill in the Blanks to Complete the Statement $\mathrm { P } ( \mathrm { x } ) = 6 ( \mathrm { x } - 9 ) ^ { 2 } - 7$