A stock market analyst was investigating the trends of two independent stocks and was surprised to see that both stocks were at the same unit value after a 12 month period. He knew that both stocks had started at the same value but had undergone different trends over the past year. One stock had risen three times it's original value then lost $8 a unit before finishing at 3/4 of this reduced value. The other stock added $3 a unit to its original unit value before crashing to 1/5 of it's improved unit value. It then showed a late improvement by increasing the unit value to seven times the reduced value. Solve the equation to find the original unit value if the stocks.