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The Riddle of the Missing Dollar   (Read 232 times)
Sep 29th, 2003 at 5:41pm

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Three guys go to a hotel. They tell the man behind the desk that they want 3 rooms. He says, “10 dollars per room so that''s 30 dollars.”So they pay and go up to their rooms.

Then, the deskman remembers that there is a special for 3 rooms for $25. He gives the bellhop the $5 change and tells him to take it up to them.
On the way, the bellhop realizes that he doesn''t know how to split it 3 ways so he keeps 2 and gives 1 to each man.

My question is: If after the dollar refund each man paid 9 dollars and $9 x 3 men equals $27 and the bellhop only has $2, then what happened to the other dollar?

 

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Reply #1 - Sep 30th, 2003 at 7:22am

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Misleeding hey!

Those guys don't pay 9 each, they pay 25/3 = 8.33333 dollars.

They each get 1 dollar back = 9.33333

Total = 3 * 8.33333 = 27.99999 + 2 dollars from the bellboy!


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