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3 men want to buy a room in a hotel for the night. The bellboy tells them it'll be $10 each so they pay him. The cashier tells the bellboy that the room only costed $25 and the bellboy needed to refund the men $5. The bellboy knew that dividing $5 among 3 people wouldn't work so he pocketed $2 for himself and gave each of the men $1 back each.

The men payed $9 each for their room after the rebate and the bellboy pocketed $2.

9+9+9+2=29

Where'd the other $1 go?

I will give an explaination so try your hardest.

cutiepie_xoxo_2010 · Accepted Answer

$30 each man paid
- 25 origaonal price 
= $5
- $3 returned money 
=$2 
- $2 pocketed money 
there is no extra or missing money

Â§Ã¨xÃ¿tÃ mmÃ½ Â® · Answer

The cost of the room was $27 minus $2, or $25. The missing $1 comes from adding $27 and $2 and getting the misleading figure of $29.

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swimmerdude313 · Answer

theres no missing dollar...
look at it as an equation.

3x10(from each man), 2 of which was pocketed by bell boy, 3x1 was given back

30-2-3=25

so we see, the bellboy has 2, the cashier has 25, and each man has 1

its simple really

nycorvette · Answer

its one of the dollers int the bellboys pockets

Anonymous · Answer

It just a math trick, there is no missing dollar.

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