The partnership agreement of Jones, King, and Lane provides for the annual allocation of the business's profit or loss in the following sequence:    • Jones, the managing partner, receives a bonus equal to 20 percent of the business’s profit. • Each partner receives 15 percent interest on average capital investment. • Any residual profit or loss is divided equally.    The average capital investments for 2015 were as follows:            Jones $ 105,000     King   210,000     Lane   315,000        How much of the $60,000 partnership profit for 2015 should be assigned to each partner?

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The partnership agreement of Jones, King, and Lane provides for the annual allocation of the business's profit or loss in the following sequence:

  

Jones, the managing partner, receives a bonus equal to 20 percent of the business’s profit.
Each partner receives 15 percent interest on average capital investment.
Any residual profit or loss is divided equally.

  

The average capital investments for 2015 were as follows:

  

     
  Jones $ 105,000  
  King   210,000  
  Lane   315,000  
 

  

How much of the $60,000 partnership profit for 2015 should be assigned to each partner?

 
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