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It is the average or arithmetic mean.
A gross refers to a group of 144 items (a dozen dozen or a square dozen).144 + 144 = 288288 + 144 = 432
What you have found is the reason that in many cases the jewelry is sold and the money divided up. Once you have the value of all the items, you may be able to sell one or two pieces and use that cash to even out the value of the distribution of the others.
8 groups of 2 = 8 groups_of_2 × 2 items/group_of_2 = 16 items → 16 items ÷ 4 items/group_of_4 = 4 groups of 4.
If you have 350 items shared in the ratio 4:1, then one person will have 280 of the items, and the other person will have 70 items.