jerome anticipated that the webweb . com stock price would fall and sold all his webweb . com stocks for $ 5 per stock . he paid $ 10,000 tax on the revenue . a week later , jerome became convinced that the webweb . com stock price would rise , and he used the money that he had gotten from selling the webweb . com stocks to purchase them again , this time at $ 6 per stock . if jerome ended up having 4000 webweb . com stocks fewer than the number he had before selling them , how many webweb . com stocks did he have originally ?
"let the number of shares be x . 5 * x - 10000 ( money paid in taxes ) = 6 ( x - 4000 ) solving for x , we get the shares as 14000 . ans : ( option d )"
add(5, 6)