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This is a bar graph of the $ value of shares that large Facebook share Updated on: 08 Nov 2025, 01:20
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This is a bar graph of the $ value of shares that large Facebook shareholders sold at the IPO date.

According to the chart, Zuckerberg was slated to sell times more Facebook stock in dollar value than Mark Pincus, founder of gaming company Zynga, was slated to sell.

Based only on the data shown in the chart, the total $ amount of Facebook shares to be sold at IPO, if priced at $35, was closest to .


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This is a bar graph of the $ value of shares that large Facebook share 03 Apr 2020, 01:26
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1)B,since Zuckerberg has 846 million $ share while Mark Pincus has 35 million $ to sell so 846/35=24.171

2)A,since sum of all values in the graph which are in light blue colour: 1337+1057+919+462+394+271+245+245+229+162+118+35+33= $5.5B

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Why did we take 846 million $ for Zuckerberg? He also has shares worth 1057 million dollars where price of each share is $35 right? So isn't the total value for Zuckerberg's share = 846 + 1057?
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This is a bar graph of the $ value of shares that large Facebook share 23 Apr 2024, 08:49
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Why did we take 846 million $ for Zuckerberg? He also has shares worth 1057 million dollars where price of each share is $35 right? So isn't the total value for Zuckerberg's share = 846 + 1057?
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This is a bar graph of the $ value of shares that large Facebook share 23 Apr 2024, 09:19
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1)B,since Zuckerberg has 846 million $ share while Mark Pincus has 35 million $ to sell so 846/35=24.171

2)A,since sum of all values in the graph which are in light blue colour: 1337+1057+919+462+394+271+245+245+229+162+118+35+33= $5.5B

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In question 1, can you please explain why did we not consider Zuckerberg having 1057 mil. shares too? Why did we only consider 846 mil.?­

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This is a bar graph of the $ value of shares that large Facebook share 23 Apr 2024, 22:17
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Why did we take 846 million $ for Zuckerberg? He also has shares worth 1057 million dollars where price of each share is $35 right? So isn't the total value for Zuckerberg's share = 846 + 1057?
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­Hi the question I am referring to is question number 1
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This is a bar graph of the $ value of shares that large Facebook share 25 Apr 2024, 08:13
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Why did we take 846 million $ for Zuckerberg? He also has shares worth 1057 million dollars where price of each share is $35 right? So isn't the total value for Zuckerberg's share = 846 + 1057?
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You are misinterpreting the graph, see the scale from x-axis. 0 ...... 1500

The figures given are not two different; rather, the second one is the total. Mark Zuckerberg has shares worth a total of 1057 million; among those, 846 million have a face value of $28; and the rest, (1057-846), 211 million shares have a face value of 35$ each. The calculation will work as follow:

1057/35 = 30.2

Answer: 24 and 30.
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This is a bar graph of the $ value of shares that large Facebook share 08 Nov 2025, 00:50
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but earlier you did 846/35 in your previous comment? was that wrong then?
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You are misinterpreting the graph, see the scale from x-axis. 0 ...... 1500

The figures given are not two different; rather, the second one is the total. Mark Zuckerberg has shares worth a total of 1057 million; among those, 846 million have a face value of $28; and the rest, (1057-846), 211 million shares have a face value of 35$ each. The calculation will work as follow:

1057/35 = 30.2

Answer: 24 and 30.
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but earlier you did 846/35 in your previous comment? was that wrong then?

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Yes, that should have been 1057/35, not 846/35.
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can you please give full solution to this question?

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Yes, that should have been 1057/35, not 846/35.
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Zuckerberg planned to sell shares worth about 1,057 million dollars, while Mark Pincus planned to sell about 35 million dollars. 1,057/35 is roughly 30, so Zuckerberg was slated to sell about 30 times more in dollar value than Mark Pincus.

At the $35 share price, the combined value of all shares to be sold (the darker bars) is:
1,337 + 1,057 + 919 + 462 + 394 + 271 + 245 + 245 + 229 + 162 + 118 + 35 + 13 = 5,487 million dollars, or about 5.5 billion dollars in total.
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