What is true of the function g(x) = –2x2 + 5?

In g(x) = −2x² + 5, x is the input, or independent variable, and g(x) is the output. The expression −2x² + 5 gives the rule for finding that output, so it is not the input. Therefore, the true statement is that x represents the independent variable.

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