Sadly the question is incomplete, so we can not see the described transformation of the parent function, thus we can't see the error in that description.
What we can do is describe the transformation shown here.
Here we can see the parent function:
f(x) = x^2
This function opens upwards, so what we see in the graph is this function reflected across the horizontal axis (the x-axis). So the transformation is just a reflection across the x-axis.
(notice that it passes through (-1, -1) and (1, -1), so there is no dilation nor contraction)
For a general function f(x), a reflection across the x-axis is just:
g(x) = -f(x)
So here the transformed function is:
g(x) = - x^2
If you want to learn more, you can read:
https://brainly.com/question/14536884
