Answer: Choice B) Vertically compressed by a factor of 8.
Explanation:
Consider a point like (8,64) which is on f(x).
If we plug in x = 8 into k(x), then we would get k(8) = 8. The old output y = 64 is now y = 8. This is an example of a vertical compression of 8. It's 8 times smaller in the vertical direction compared to what it used to be. This is because the k(x) outputs are 1/8 those of the f(x) outputs.
Effectively we have k(x) = (1/8)*f(x).
Another example would be x = 16 leading to y = 256 on f(x). For k(x), we have x = 16 lead to y = 32
Refer to the graph below.
