Three friends check into a hotel for the night. The clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance.
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 men by $5.
He asks the porter to return $5 to the friends.
The porter 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.
Now, that each of the three has got a dollar back, they each have paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night.
We know the porter 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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2006-08-23
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