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Dj Juve

Dj Juve

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    tough one this..


    Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????
     
    Slagathor

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    ++ [ originally posted by [DJ Juve] ] ++
    tough one this..


    Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????
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    d'oh ... I was never very good at math ...
     
    Slagathor

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    c'mon! use that rotting brains of yours and think :D
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    The Bellhop kept $2 so the total costs for the lads (25 + 2) are $27
    3 x 9 = 27

    Plus the three dollars the bellhop returned: 27 + 3 = 30
     
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    Dj Juve

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    the answer is that the three friends paid 30 dollars, but the clerk supposedly gave back 5 dollars, thus they paying only 25 dolars. the bellboy took 2 dolars and gave 3 dollars to the friends so 25+3+2=30...

    ++ [ originally posted by vitoria ] ++


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    owww..i so did not know that :D
     
    Slagathor

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    ++ [ originally posted by [DJ Juve] ] ++
    the answer is that the three friends paid 30 dollars, but the clerk supposedly gave back 5 dollars, thus they paying only 25 dolars. the bellboy took 2 dolars and gave 3 dollars to the friends so 25+3+2=30...
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    That's what I said!!
     
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