Three guys are eating at a restaurant. When they finish, their tab is $15. They decide to split it evenly, so they each give $5 to the waiter. The waiter gives the money to the store owner, who happens to be a good friend of the three guys. The store owner decides to take $5 of the three guys' tab, so he gives the waiter five $1 bills and tells him to split evenly among the three guys.
The waiter is not very good at math, and also not very honest, so instead of figuring out how to split $5 among three people, he just gives each guy a $1 bill and keeps the other two for himself.
Now each guy paid $5 and got $1 back, so each guy effectively paid $4. There are three guys, so between thre three of them, they paid $12. The waiter has $2 more in his pocket. This adds up to $14. If the original tab was $15, then where did the remaining dollar go?
2006-08-24
03:11:50
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