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The bakery that belongs to its bakers
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A small bakery belongs to its five workers. It has no boss: each worker owns an equal part, and each has one vote.
A bakery belongs to its workers. No boss; vote each.
workers, vote each.
At the end of the month the bakery made a profit of one hundred and twenty tokens. Sharing equally would give twenty-four tokens to each, but the workers' hours were different: five, ten, ten, fifteen and twenty, which is sixty hours in all.
The profit is tokens. Equal shares would be each, but the hours are .
Profit . Equal share . Hours of worker : , with .
So they share by hours: every hour is worth two tokens. The shares are ten, twenty, twenty, thirty and forty tokens.
One hour is worth tokens, so the shares are .
Share of worker : .
Votes are equal, but pay follows work. And the shares add up to exactly one hundred and twenty tokens, not one more, not one less.
Equal votes, pay by work: .
Letters of words: 468 → 146 → 61.
How to read the signs
- the sum of
- h i: the hours of worker i
- s i: the share of worker i
- G divided by n: an equal share
- checked; correct