Three guys are on vacation, so they check in at a hotel. They ask the manager how much per room, and he says 30 dollars. They say OK, and they check out one room for all three of them. Each one forks over 10 dollars to pay for it. They go up to their room. An hour later, the manager thinks he charged them too much, so he tells the bellboy to go give them back 5 dollars. On the way to the room, the bellboy wonders how he is going to fairly divide 5 dollars between 3 people, so instead, he just takes 2 dollars and returns $3 to the men, so each man got a $1 refund. So in essence, the each paid only 9 dollars.
Heres the mystery: each of the 3 men paid 9 dollars, so that is $27 total, right? Plus the $2 the bell boy took, that equals $29... Where did the other dollar go?
2007-02-10
08:36:26
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