Ok, there's three guys that check into a hotel. When they get to the hotel, they order some pizzas from room service. The delivery boy brings the pizzas up and says it'll be $30. Each man pays ten dollars, and the delivery boy brings the money down to the cashier. The cashier says the delivery boy told them the wrong price, and that the pizzas were only $25. So, as the boy is making his way back up to the guys' room with the money, he decides since there is no way to split 5 dollars between 3 men, he would keep two dollars for himself. SO, when he gets to the room, he tells the men the situation and gives them the three dollars, which they evenly divide amongst themselves. But, figure this out, if they paid ten dollars, and they were refunded one, which means they each paid nine dollars, 9x3=27 and the delivery boy only took two dollars. Twenty-seven plus two is twenty-nine. If the original total was $30, where did the last dollar go?
2006-08-24 14:13:11 · 17 answers · asked by x 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
The three guys paid $27($25 for the pizza and $2 for the delivery guy) plus the $3 they got back($1 per guy) = $30
2006-08-24 15:13:06 · answer #1 · answered by LADY ICE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're misleading you with wrong math in the question. The men each paid $10, so 3 x $10 = $30. The cashier gave the bell boy back $5 to give back to the men: the boy gave the men back $3, and kept $2 for himself. $3 + $2 = $5. $25 the cashier kept, + $3 the men got back, + $2 the boy kept = $30.
2006-08-24 21:16:36 · answer #2 · answered by They call me ... Trixie. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the way the riddle is stated sounds logical, but if you work out the math, you are supposed to subtract the $2 the boy took, so:
each man paid 27 - $2 the boy kept = 25, same as what the hotel collected.
2006-08-25 05:57:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea there misleadin you with the math it all adds up really the paid 10 not 9 but they got 1 back so what eva
2006-08-24 21:21:50 · answer #4 · answered by Mahogany D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
but it says the pizza was really $25; soooo 25+2[that the pizza guy kept]+3[that he gave back to the guys]=30.
2006-08-24 21:30:43 · answer #5 · answered by lauren222222222 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cashier took it? Someone dropped it? The dog ate it? I don't know, that's really confusing. I read it 3 times and I don't know where it could have gone!
2006-08-24 21:18:49 · answer #6 · answered by I L♥VE YOU! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OH MAN! I heard that kind of riddle, but i forgot the answer! Sry though, but i think the cashier took it. Dont know why but i think that's the answer, but im 99.9% it's wrong.
2006-08-24 21:27:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh my god! Where DID the last dollar go? Sorry, but I have no clue, I really wanna know the answer.
2006-08-24 22:03:07 · answer #8 · answered by Summer Rain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, they were never $9 each! That was well easy! 2 points for moi!!
2006-08-24 22:08:21 · answer #9 · answered by ©Wayne© 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the other $ went to the cashier,the cashier needed her cut from the thirty $'s too!!!
2006-08-24 22:07:41 · answer #10 · answered by Wonetta B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋