Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
Without any calculations, you can eliminate Apple and Google: both of them suffered looses. Neither went up. They went down. eBay went up ever so slightly (0.09 on nearly 21 dollars). At least it did not loose money on the day. So it is possible.
Netflix went up $2.73 on a stock that was about 118 on it's close. So while ebay only made $.09, Netflix was the winner on the day both in absolute and % terms.
The answer is 24. think of x as the original amount, and y as the new
amount. y times 1.5 is x, and y+12 is x. reverse that to figure out y,
which is what we need, and you have x/1.5 = y as well as x-12 = y. Use
the equal values method and make an equation x/1.5=x-12. solve this
equation to get x, which is 36. to figure out the new amount, y, you
need to subtract 12, which would help you get 24 as your final answer.
Missing step : -3x > 24 <== to get that, 10 was added to both sides
