Case 1: Two partners join @same time

Jethalal Ghada and Roshansingh Sodhi decided to start an ice-cream

parlor in partnership.
Their individual investment is rupees 2,70,000 and 2,10,000 respectively.
At the end of first year, they make profit of Rs.80,000. Find Jethalal’s
share in this profit.

Step 1: Fill up the table

Make a table

Name Initial Investment Months Actual Investment=Initial x months

Jethalal 2.7lakh 12 2.7 x 12

Sodhi 2.1lakh 12 2.1 x 12

Step 2: Find Ratio of Actual investment

Actual Investment Ratio of Jethalal : Sodhi
= (2.7 x 12) / (2.1 x 12)
=9:7
Therefore, whatever profit is made, they must share it in the ratio of their
investment =9:7

Step 3: Componendo on Total Profit

See this image for calculation

This means, whatever “total” profit is made, Jethalal should get

9/16th part of that “total” profit.
Given: they made profit of Rs.80,000
Hence Jethalal’s share in profit
=(9/16) multiplied with 80,000
=Rs.45000
Corporally to that, Sodhi’s share in profit
= Total profit Minus Jetha’s share in profit
=80000-45000
=35000

Alternatively:Sodhi’s share in profit

Therefore Sodhi’s share in profit = 7/16th of Total profit

=(7/16) x 80000
=35000
Time to complicate the case.

Case 2: Two Partners join @Different Time

Jethalal starts an Ice cream parlour with initial investment of Rs.2.7
lakhs.
After 3 months, Sodhi joins him with investment of Rs.2.1 lakh.
At the end of first year, they make profit of Rs.95,000.
Find out Jethalal’s share in this profit?

Answer:
Jethalal starts the business and Sodhi Joins after 3 months.
It means Sodhi stayed in the business 12 minus 3 =9 months.
Fill up the table

Step 1: Fill up table

Name Initial Investment Months Actual Investment

Jethalal 2.7lakh 12 =2.7 x 12

Sodhi 2.1lakh 9 =2.1 x 9

Step 2: Find Ratio of Actual investment

Actual Investment Ratio of Jetha:Sodhi
= (2.7 x 12) / (2.1 x 9)
=12/7

Step 3: Apply Componendo on Total Profit

Profit share of (Jetha:Total)
= 12/(12+7)
=12/19th part of total
Given: they made profit of Rs.95000
Jethalal’s share in profit
=(12/19) x 95000
=Rs.60000
And Sodhi’s share in profit
= 95000 minus 60000
=35,000

Case 3: Three partners join @same time

Jethalal, Sodhi and Mehta start an ice cream parlor with initial
investment of Rs. 2.1lakhs, 2.7lakhs and 1.5 lakhs respectively. At the end
of one year, they make profit of Rs.1.05 lakhs. Find the Share of Mehta in
this profit.

The method remain the same.

Step 1: Fill up table

Name Initial Investment Months

Jethalal 2.7 lakh 12

Sodhi 2.1 lakh 12

Mehta 1.5 lakh 12

The “Months” column isn’t really important, unless the partners are
joining at different time (as happened in case#2)
Because x12 months will cut each other when we take ratio since
they’re common for each partner.
So we can simply ignore that column and concentrate on

Step 2: Ratio of Actual investment

Jetha : Sodhi : Mehta
= 2.7 : 2.1 : 1.5
If you multiply each with 10
=27:21:15
If you divide each number with 3
=9:7:5

Step 3: Componendo
Mehta’s share
= 5 / (9+7+5)
=(5/21) x 1,05,000
=Rs.25000

Alternative: without simplifying the ratio

Since all partners joined @ same time, the months aren’t important. We
can directly use the money invested by them.

Mehta’s share ratio

= 1.5 lakh / (1.5 lakh + 2.1 lakh + 2.7 lakh)

=1.5/6.3
Mehta’s share in total profit
=(1.5/6.3) x 105000
=Rs.25000
Now let’s try a complicated problem that uses all of above cases.

Case 4: All In One

Jethalal starts an icecream parlour with initial investment of 3
lakhs.
3 months later Sodhi joins him with investment of Rs.2 lakhs
and stays till the end.
Later on Mehta also joins them and contributes Rs.1 lakh and
stays till the end.
After one year, they make total profit of Rs.28,000 and Mehta
is given Rs.1000 out of this profit.
Find out when did Mehta join the business?

Jetha started the business. Sodhi joined 3 months after Jetha.

Hence Sodhi stayed in business for 12 minus 3 = 9 months.
Assume Mehta stayed in business for “m” months.

Step 1: Fill up the table

Name Initial Investment Months Actual investment
 =Initial investment x Months

Jethalal 3 lakhs 12 3 x 12 =36

Sodhi 2 lakhs 9 2 x 9 =18

Mehta 1 lakh M 1 x M=M

Step 2: Ratio of actual investment

As you ca see in the last column of ^that table.
Jetha : Sodhi : Mehta =36:18:M

Step 3: Componendo for Mehta’s share

=M / (36+18+M)
=M/(54+M)th part of Total profit (Rs.28,000)
But it is given: Mehta was paid Rs. 1000 out of total profit.

28M=1M+54
28M-1M=54
27M=54
M=54/27
M=2 months.
It means Mehta stayed in the business for 2 Months.
It means he joined the gang 10 months after Jethalal had started the
business (10+2=12months)

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