Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, 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 trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop 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 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????
First one to get it gets 10 POINTS!!
2006-08-09 13:41:14 · 8 answers · asked by jim 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
hotel - 25
bellhop - 2
customers - 1 dollar each
25 + 2 + 1 = 30
2006-08-09 13:53:12 · answer #1 · answered by ♥NoSense♥ 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is no missing dollar... They paid 9 each. A total of 27 dollars. The key is...you are no longer looking for 30, but for 27. So...since the clerk refunded 5, he still has 25. The bellhop has 2, and 25+2=27. No missing dollar.
2006-08-09 20:49:19 · answer #2 · answered by slayjordan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hotel got $25,the bellhop got $2 the friends had $3(all together)
$25+$2+$3=$30
2006-08-09 20:49:03 · answer #3 · answered by Rosy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well why would you say the men paid 9 dollars each? the hotel only got 25 dollars 2 to the bellhop and 3 back to the guests
25+3+2=30
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2006-08-09 20:50:10 · answer #4 · answered by ♥ The One You Love To Hate♥ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the hotel has 25, the bellhop has 2, and they each got 1 back
25+2+3=30
2006-08-09 20:46:53 · answer #5 · answered by Comfortably Numb™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the clerk has the other dollar because he gave back 5 dollars meaning the trio payed 25 dollars for there room.
the missing dollar made it 25 otherwise it would of been 24
2006-08-09 20:59:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's there, it's there! For Pete's sake, the dollar is there! LOL. LOL.
2006-08-09 22:29:06 · answer #7 · answered by jfmm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOOD JOKE!!! WHO'S GOING TO ANSWER IT RIGHT?????
HA HA HA HA!!!! L O L
2006-08-09 20:44:44 · answer #8 · answered by demure_taurus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋