Given a math problem with context and a question and 5 answer choices, the task is to provide the correct answer choice based on the problem. You must choose one of the given answer choices by letter: a, b, c, d, or e; anything else is invalid.

Problem: on the number line, the number p is twice as many units from - 2 as - 2 is from 5. if p is less than – 2, what is the value of p ?
Options: a. – 16, b. – 10, c. – 6, d. 10, e. 14
a

Problem: a person purchases 90 clocks and sells 40 clocks at a gain of 10 % and 50 clocks at a gain of 20 %. if he sold all of them at a uniform profit of 15 %, then he would have got rs. 40 less. the cost price of each clock is :
Options: a. 50, b. 90, c. 80, d. 28, e. 93
c

Problem: during a certain two - week period, 58 percent of the movies rented from a video store were comedies, and of the remaining movies rented, there were 5 times as many dramas as action movies. if no other movies were rented during that two - week period and there were a action movies rented, then how many comedies, in terms of a, were rented during that two - week period ?
Options: a. 10 a, b. 9 a, c. 8 2 / 3 a, d. 11 a, e. 12 a

c