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.

[EX Q]: Problem: 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 7000 webweb. com stocks fewer than the number he had before selling them, how many webweb. com stocks did he have originally ?
Options: a. 10,000, b. 11,600, c. 17,000, d. 14,000, e. 16,400
[EX A]: c

[EX Q]: Problem: a merchant marks goods up by 80 % and then offers a discount on the marked price. the profit that the merchant makes after offering the discount is 35 %. what % discount did the merchant offer ?
Options: a. 20 %, b. 25 %, c. 30 %, d. 35 %, e. 40 %
[EX A]: b

[EX Q]: Problem: a man can row 24 kmph in still water. it takes him thrice as long to row up as to row down the river. find the rate of the stream ?
Options: a. 6, b. 12, c. 18, d. 15, e. 20
[EX A]:
b