Please solve this complex math?

Question

Please solve this complex math


Three friends decide to buy a gift for a common friends's birthday. They go to a known shop who will give generally gives them 20% discount.
As the owner was no where seen they have to pay the full price of $45 so, each pay $15.
The owner later finds out about that and asks the boy to return $5 to them, the boy takes the $5 and spends $2 for himself and returns $3. The tree take each one dollar.



Now the question ?
As each spent 15 its 15 * 3 = 45

As $3 was returned its now 14 each = 14*3 = 42
The boy only kept $2

Means : 42 +2 = 44
What happened to the remaining dollar.

Answer 1

That problem is the way you state the question. They each paid $15 * 3 = $45. Her returned $5, so the total paid to the store is $40.

Now each got one dollar back, so they paid in $14*3 = $42, and the one boy has the extra $2 which needs to be split. There is no extra dollar: $42 - $2 = $40!!

Answer 2

The math logic:

15*3=45 (each pay 15, total 45)

45-5 (owner returns 5)

45-3-2 (boy returns 3, spends 2)

42-2 (after return, each paid 14, 14*3 =42, boy spends 2)

The error was in using (42+2) instead of the correct (42-2).

Answer 3

It should be 42 - 2 = 40 to show the difference between what they would have paid had the shop owner been there and what it actually ended up costing them (the price plus the $2 the boy kept).

OR

42 + 3 = 45 which was the total cost to them after the discount including what the boy kept plus the three $ that were returned to them.

Answer 4

The last sentence: The tree each take one dollar. I assume that to mean the boy spent $2, and then gave himself $1 and the other 2 boys each $1. That $3 dollar. $2 + $3 = $5

Answer 5

Nothing happend to the remaining dollar. Together they paid 45 dollars. They then got a refund of 5 dollars. The three dollars refunded to each of them drops the total to 42(45 - 3) and the 2 dollars the boy spent (42 - 2) accounts for the remaining money. Good twist on words though

Answer 6

Ans 1. : Owner has $40, $1 each with the 3 friends and 2 with the boy. thus total=45


u obtained 42 by subtracting 1 each from d friends contribution. then y r u adding 2 to it. this makes no sense. u also hav to subtract that two dollars/ thus 42 - 2 = 40.
5$ is discount.

thus 40+5 = 45

(dont consider modified answeres)

Answer 7

There is no remaining dollar. The $2 the boy kept was part of the $42.

Answer 8

That was always one of my favorite riddles.

Its just the way you are making people add

the Item was only 40 dollars after the 20%

so each only spent $13 x 3 = 40

the shop boy $2 = 42

and ond dollar to the 3 = 45

Answer 9

There were 3 boys. One kept two dollars for himself and gave three dollars to the three boys (including himself in the 3). Therefore the boy given the money by the store owner had three dollars and the other two had 1 dollar.

Answer 10

The dishonest friend got a $3 discount while the other two got a $1 discount.

That's $5 for the discount + $12 paid by friend A, + $14 paid by frind B + $14 paid by friend C = $45.