3. A, B and C trade in company; A put into stock 250 dols: B put in 300 dols. and C 550 dols. and lost 5 per cent. by trading; what was each man's share of the loss? A's share of the loss, $12,50 Ans. B's C's 15,00 27,50 4. A, B and C trade in company; A put in 500 dols. B $350, and C put in 120 yards of cloth; they gained dols. 332,50, of which C's share was 120 dols. what was A's and B's shares of the gain, and the value of C's cloth per yard? Ans. A's share of the gain dols. 125 B's 87,50 5. A, B and C trade in company; A put in 2000 dols. B put in 20 hogsheads of rum, and C 500 barrels of flour; they gained 650 dols. of which B's share was 200 dols. C's 250 dols. I demand A's share of the gain, and the value of B's rum, and C's flour? A's share of the gain, dols. 200 Ans. Value of B's rum, Value of C's flour, 2000 2500 6. A, B and C trade in company; A put in 3000 dols. B 3500 dols. and C 4500: they gained 30 per cent, but received the whole amount of their goods in bills, for which they were obliged to allow a discount of ten per cent. or suffer a loss on them of ten per cent; how much was each man's net gain? # A's net gain was dols. 810 7. A merchant by will left to his children his estate, as follows, to A he bequeathed 5000 dols. to B 4500 dols. to C 4500 dols. and to D 4000 dols. But his whole estate, after paying debts, charges, &c. amounted to but 12000 dols.; what must each have? 8. A, B, and C bought a ship, for which A paid $3855, B paid $2977,50, and C $1752,50; they gain by her earnings, $3434; what is each man's share of the gain? 9. A sent to a correspondent in Martinique, goods to the amount of 540 dols. to which B, his correspondent, added goods to an amount unknown to A, and sent the whole to another port, by which the whole gain was 387 dols. of which B took 225 dols. for his share : Please to inform A what his stock and gains together is, and the value of what B put in? Ans. {A's stock and gain together is dols. 702 share of stock, 750 10. A put into an adventure, or voyage, 2850 dols. B put in 1980 dols. and C put in the remainder, which made the whole 8000 dols; by shipwreck they lost 6400 dols.; how much must each sustain of the loss? Compound or Double Fellowship, is when the several shares of the stock in trade are continued in trade unequal times. To find each partner's share of the gain or loss. RULE. Multiply each man's share of the stock, by the time it was continued in trade, and add the several products together; then say, as the sum of all the products is to the whole gain or loss, so is the product of each man's stock and time, to his share of the gain or loss.. EXAMPLES. 1. Two merchants trade in company; A put in 5000 dols. for 9 months, B put in 4000 dols. for 6 months; they gained 690 dols.; how much is each man's share of the gain? 69000 690 :: 24000 24000 276 138 691000) 16:560|000(240) · 138 ܶ ) { 276 2. A. B and C trade in company; A put in $3000 for 6 months, B $4000 for 10 months, and C $2500 for 12 months, they gained $880; how much is each man's share of the gain? " 1: A $180 aloAns. B 400 CA 300 3. A and B trade in Company, A put in $3000, and at the end of 6 months, put in $2000 more; B put in $6000, and at the end of 8 months, took out $3000; they trade one year, and gain 1080 dols.; how much must each man have of the gain? -1 Ans. ( SA, $480 B, 600 4. A put into stock in company, 4000 dols. for (9 months; B put in 3000 dols. for 6 months, C put in 2000 dols. for 5 months; they gained 3200 dols. what is each man's share of the gain?t 0 JA, $1800 Ans. B 900 5. A, B and C trade in company; A put in 5000 dols. for 18 months, B 3800 dols. for 13 months, and C2700 dols for 9 months; they gained 8180 dols; what was dach man's share of the gain? A, dols. 4497,251117 Ans C, 1537 1637 1214,251275 6. A, B and C traded in company as follows: On the first of January, A put in 3800 dols on the first of May following, B put in 2700 dols. and on the first of August following, C put in 4000 dols ; at the end of the year, they dissolved partnership, each took his share of stock and gain, the whole gain being 4360 dols. how much did each take? { A took for stock and gain, $6133444 Ans. B, 370382 5023404 7. A and B trade in company for 1 year only; on the first of January, A put in 1200 dols. but B could not put any money into the stock till the first of April; how much must B put in, so as to share equally with A ? Ans. 1600 dols. TARE AND TRET. Tare is an allowance made for the weight of the box, cask, bale, or whatever contains the goods, and is either, 1. At so much per bag, barrel, hogshead, box, &c. 2. At so much per cent; or, 3. At so much in the whole gross weight, called invoice tare. I 3 So much per cent in Avoirdupois weight, is al ways to be understood so much for 112 pounds, that being one hundred of that weight. Tret is an allowance made to the buyer of 4 pounds in 104 pounds, which is a twenty sixth part of the whole, for waste, and dust, in some sorts of goods. Cloff is sometimes allowed, which is 2 pounds on each draught of more than 3 cwt. CoGross weight is the whole weight of the goods, and of the box, bag, or whatever contains them. Net weight is the pure weight of the goods, after all allowances are made. The following are the usual allowances for tare in England, as in a book of rates. In casks and cannistom St. Thomas'.} Tare {1,6th. Oil from Canada, 291b. per barrel. In the United States' custom-houses on tea, coffee, and Tare on boxes of other dimensions, according to invoice or weight. |