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Classic Riddle... Try it?
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.
10 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
$30 each man paid
- 25 origaonal price
= $5
- $3 returned money
=$2
- $2 pocketed money
there is no extra or missing money
- 1 decade ago
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.
=)
- 1 decade ago
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
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
It just a math trick, there is no missing dollar.
