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 Question from Ayatullah: Hello; We are three partners and bought a property at 2050000 and sold at 2300000. Details of investment of the partners X= 1500000 Y= 400000 Z = 150000 My questions are 1) How could i calculate percentage of investment of each partner? 2) How could i deduct 30% commission from each partner in profit? 3) How could i distribute the profit amongst the partners? Thanks in advance

Hi Ayatullah,

The investment share for partner X was $\large \frac{1500000}{2050000} \normalsize = 0.731707$ or $73.1707\%.$ In a similar fashion you can calculate the share of the investment by partners Y and Z.

The profit was $\$250000$so I would distribute the gross profit using the same percentages. This partner X would get$0.731707 \times 250000$dollars. Before distributing the profit deduct$30\%\$ from each partner's gross profit.

Penny

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