Calculate Money Owed Between A, B & C in Shared Apartment Flat

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The discussion focuses on calculating the money owed among three individuals, A, B, and C, who shared the costs of household goods in an apartment. Each person initially paid one-third of the total cost, T, of all household items. The function f(person1, person2) determines the amount of money person1 owes to person2 based on the proportion of goods each person takes after a drawing. For example, if A takes 1/2, B takes 3/8, and C takes 1/8 of the goods, the calculations show that A owes (1/2 - 1/3)T to C, while B owes (3/8 - 1/3)T to C.

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I'm a collage student, I rented an apartment flat with my 2 friends. We bought all house things by each of us paying 1/3 of their price.

An now we are to break apart, I decided to make a drawing (like lottery) to decide who take which house hold.

Assume that,
A, B, C: Names of three people
T: Total cost of all household goods
N: Total number of all all household goods
ai: Cost of element of set of the household goods that A takes as a result of the drawing
bi: Cost of element of set of the household goods that B takes as a result of the drawing
ci: Cost of element of set of the household goods that C takes as a result of the drawing
m: Number of household goods that A takes as a result of the drawing
n: Number of household goods that B takes as a result of the drawing
k: Number of household goods that C takes as a result of the drawing

Can you give me the function f defined as,
f(person1, person2): Amount of money that person1 pays to person2
in terms of the parameters listed above.
 
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It only depends on what each person ends up taking, since everyone has already paid 1/3, doesn't it?

So suppose A takes 1/2 of all the goods, B takes 3/8 and C takes 1/8.
Then A will have to deposit (1/2 - 1/3)T in the common bank account and B should pay (3/8 - 1/3)T, while C gets to withdraw (1/3 - 1/8)T.

If you want, you can skip the bank account and settle it directly by making A pay (1/2-1/3)T to C directly, and let B pay (3/8-1/3)T to C.
 

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