I use pro rata when an entire table of people are using the same product, or when a group of people are all using a similar product, or when a recipe uses the exact same ingredient. I also use pro rata when a given recipe uses the exact same amount of something, or a given recipe uses the exact amount of something.
The pro rata share is one of those phrases that is so ubiquitous that it has a name. It’s also one of the most common of the things you’ll hear in a grocery store checkout line. The idea is that you should share things proportionately to how much a group of people are using.
There’s a lot of debate over pro rata shares. Some argue that pro rata shares are wasteful because people use different amounts of each item. Some say that pro rata shares are fair because the same portion of each item is given out proportionately. I would argue that a pro rata share is a fair amount of each thing given out proportionately.
There are many arguments on both sides of this, but I think the biggest problem with pro rata shares is that it makes it very easy to get more than your share. If you share the same item proportionally theres no reason not to share it proportionately, so if you have a pro rata share of milk and apple juice, that makes it easier to share apple juice than if you have a pro rata share of apple juice and milk.
Another problem is that it makes it very easy to divide, so if you only share 1% of your milk and apple juice, you may end up with a small proportion of apple juice, but not a large proportion of milk.
Another problem is that it makes it easy to divide, so if you only share 1 of your milk and apple juice, you may end up with a small proportion of apple juice, but not a large proportion of milk.
It’s not a problem, but if you only share one or two items per person, you can get away with a pro rata share. So in that case, you would divide your milk and apple juice into two or three equal shares. This is the kind of thing that would be easy to do in a business meeting, but probably not something a person would do out in the real world.
This is the first time we’ve ever talked about how the term pro rata share is used in a real life situation.
Pro rata share is a way of saying “share the same amount”. Basically, it means that each person gets a share of the same amount of something. A share of apple juice, for example, is one third of all the juice you drink. A share of milk is one quarter of all the milk you drink. But pro rata share means that each person gets a share of the same amount of something.
The key difference between pro rata and even more extreme cases of sharing is that pro rata share is more intense than other ways of sharing. The actual number of shares you get is not always the sum of the numbers shown in the list. If you share one dollar of juice, you get 1,000 shares of juice. If you share two dollar of juice, you get 12,000 shares of juice. And that’s just one way of sharing.