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Can someone me do math because i am having a breakdown rn because i don’t get it

Hector and alex traded video games. alex gave hector one fourth of his video games in exchange for 6 video games. then he sold 3 video games and gave 2 video games to his brother. alex ended up with 16 video games. how many video games did alex have when he started?

Ellen makes and sells bookmarks. she graphs the number of bookmarks sold compared to the total money earned. why is the rate of change for the function graphed to the left?