In the interval where the function is decreasingcreasing, the input or x values increase as the output or y values decrease. Looking at the graph, moving from the left to the right, the values of x are increasing whie the values of y are decreasing. This trend continued till we got to x = 0.5. Thus, in the interval from negative infinity to x = - 0.5, the function was decreasing.
The correct option is C
