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mir

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Missing Dollar

Three men on a business trip check into a motel for the night. The cost of a room is $30, so they agree to split it evenly and each pay $10. The manager decides that, since business is good, he will refund them $5, and so hands five one dollar bills to the bellhop. Realizing that they cannot split $5 evenly, the men give the bellhop a two dollar tip. They split the remaining three dollars evenly amongst themselves.

This means that, at the end of the night, each of the three men has paid $9, and the bellhop has been given $2. But 9 x 3 + 2 = 29. What happened to the thirtieth dollar?

7aRami

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Re: Missing Dollar

Disregard my comment

I was in state = dumb!

Last edited by 7aRami (October 15 2007)

duckster

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Re: Missing Dollar

If each paid $10 then took back $1, it means each ended up paying $9, i.e. all three paid a total of $27
The hotel took $25 and the bellhop $2, i.e. $27. Makes sense

duckster

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Re: Missing Dollar

To make it simpler :)

"each of the three men has paid $9", i.e. $27 in total. $25 to the hotel and $2 to the bellhop

mahdoum

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Re: Missing Dollar

like everyone else said, the $9 that was paid by each person includes the $2 tip to the bellhop, 9 x 3 = 27
add $3 the combined money they recieved ($1 each) then you get the original $30

Nice play on words and math btw :)

mir

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Re: Missing Dollar

i know it is easy
i will post some more
if u want guys , i can make a post and mabe we make it into some kind of geekness challenge