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How should we split the rent?

The apartment

Four beds at the $1,350 West Campus median

Electricity for four bedrooms, our estimate

The people

It comes off everyone else’s share

How this is calculatedThe math

Rent and shared bills are added together. With no bigger-room extra, that total is divided evenly.

With an extra, one person pays that much more than each of the others, and the total still adds up to the rent and bills.

Where the starting numbers come from2 sources

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