I have a little riddle!?

Question

3salesmen split a room at a hotel. The room is 30.00 bucks each man pays 10.00. The clerk later sees that he overcharged them. It is just 25.00 for a room. He takes 5.00 to give back to them. He know he cannot divide 5 three ways so he pockets 2.00 and gives them each a dollar back. Each man has paid 9.00 each for the room, and the clerck has 2.00 in his pocket. 9*3 is 27+the 2 the clerck has = 29 where is the other dollar?

Answer 1

each man has not paid 9 dollars for the room.

Your math is flawed because you haven't taken into account fully the idea of the payment and the change given.

The room costs $25

Each man handed over $10, making a combined payment of $30. Collectively they are entitled to $5 change. But the clerk has wrongly pocketed $2 and gives the men $3 change collectively that they divide.

10x3= 30 payment made
-5= 25 deduction of room price
+3=28 change given
+2=30 change kept by clerk

Look at this another way also and it adds up
Payment made for room= 10x3 = 30
money handed to each man=1 x3= 3
money kept by clerk=2 =3+2= 5 dollars given back after payment
30-5=25
real price of room= 25
balance left= 0

Answer 2

You say $9 X 3 plus $2 = $29.

But that $9 consists of 8.33 paid towards the room and .66 paid to the clerk. For a total of $27. The also get $3 back because they originally paid $30.

Here's where the problem is confusing. The original amount of $30 becomes irrlevant, they get $3 back and pay $27 for a $25 room. To say they pay $9 each and then the clerk is wrong because it adds up to $29 and only $27 is paid.

Answer 3

9*3= 27, 30-27= 3, 27-25= 2, 25+2+1*3=30, 30/3 = 10
If you add the clerk's $2 to that you are adding it twice. 27-25= the clerk's 2 dollars. The remaining 3 dollars, 30-27, is what the businessmen got back.
When you got $29, you added the clerk's $2 twice!

Answer 4

Each man gets one dollar back for a total of $3. the Bellhop has $2, and the clerk has $25. 3+2+25=30.

Answer 5

that is old.. um, it's in the clerks hand. this was submitted by a boy to a proffessor of a college one time to show how faulty the math system really is... it works one way but not the other... if you add 5 to 25=30 but when you add 9+9+9=27+2=29.. it is a mistake in wordproblem mathematics..

Answer 6

25 (for a room) =27 (paid) -2 (pocket)

Or 30 - 5 = 27 - 2

Why you sum 27 + 2 when these 2 did not go to a hotel?

Answer 7

You've made it "disappear" though mathematical "slight of hand" and misplaced "logic" ... the "missing dollar" is in the business man's pocket: 30 (original) - 5 (corrected) = 25 the business men paid 8.33 per person with 1 cent tacked on to round it off.

Answer 8

each man has one dollar in his pocket
the clerk has 27 dollars

the men paid $8.3333333333 for the room not 9 each,
this extra third when timesed by three makes up the one missing from your equation

Answer 9

this riddle is the accepted question of the mythological sphinx in historic egyptian cases. one that needed to go into or pass for the period of the section the sphinx became conserving had to respond to the question properly. if he could no longer, he could be killed. the answer to the question is a human a million) a baby crawls on all fours 2) a guy walks on 2 legs 3) an previous guy makes use of the help of a cane (as a result making the third)

Answer 10

It has to do with how the question is asked - for no matter what the clerk has $27.00 for the room and the men paid 9*3 =$27.00 - the clerk gave them back $3.00.