OK, three traveling salesmen are staying at a hotel, and they decide to split a room. The desk attendant tells them their room is $30. They each put in $10, and the attendant gives them their key.
After they go to the room, the attendant realizes that the room should have only been $25. He gives the bell boy $5 to take to the salesmen. Going up the elevator, the boy wonders how he will split $5 between three men.
He decides to put $2 in his pocket and gives the men $3, giving $1 to each man. So, the room ended up costing each man $9, right?
Here's the riddle. Each man paid $9 to the hotel, Three times $9 is $27. And the bell boy has $2, that's $29. Where did the other dollar (from the original $30) go?
2006-06-30
10:49:53
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