No, it is not because IDENTITY means itself, so the answer has to be the same.
8<em> times (</em> 2<em> plus</em> 1 ) = 24
<span>Since the h represents the number of hours spent working on the vehicle then the 75 represents the charge per hour for the work, leaving only the 0.08 which stands for the sales tax percentage which is 8% or 0.08 of the product of $75 times the number of hours worked on the car.</span>
Your equation

is in the form

The vertex only relies on "a" and "b" though, so that +9 doesn't really matter in this case. The vertex of a parabola is located where

So your x-coordinate is -1. You need to find f(-1) to find your y-coordinate, and then you list it in the form (-1, y).