I'm so confused about what this means I even asked my friends and posted a 100 point question on brainly but no one can answer it. Please help me.

The basic function is;
[tex]y=x[/tex]When the function is transformed to;
[tex]\begin{gathered} y=mx+b \\ \text{Where m is a constant} \end{gathered}[/tex]Then, this is as a results of m-units vertical stretch and +b is vertical shift upward.
Vertical stretch:
When we multiply a function by a positive constant, we get a function whose graph is stretched or compressed vertically in relation to the graph of the original function. Thus, x is multiplied by a positive constant m, then it is vertical stretched.