You have the followinge quation:
y = 3|x| - 8
|x| is the absolute value of x, and it makes that any positive or negative value of x becomes positive.
Then, without importance of the sign of the values of x, you always get a positive value in the first term of the equation. Thus, while x increases or decreases the function increases. This last means that the graph open right.
Hence, the answer is:
A) up
