3 WOMEN GO INTO A SHOP TO BUY A RADIO IT COSTS £30 SO THEY PAY £10 EACH AFTER THEY LEAVE THE MAN IN THE SHOP LOOKS AT HIS PRICE LIST AND HE SEE'S THE RADIO WAS ONLY £25 POUNDS SO HE RUNS OUT OF THE SHOP WITH THE £5 DIFFERENCE AND HE SAYS TO HIMSELF THERE ARE 3 WOMEN AND £5 WILL NOT SPLIT EQUAL SO HE PUTS £2 IN HIS OWN POCKET AND GIVES THE 3 WOMEN BACK A £1 EACH SO THAT MENT THEY ONLY PAID £9 EACH FOR THE RADIO. SO TO RECAP 3 WOMEN PAID £10 EACH FOR THE RADIO THEY GOT £1 EACH BACK SO THEY PAID £9 EACH AND THE MAN PUT £2 IN HIS OWN POCKET SO LETS ADD UP 9X3=27, AND THE £2 THE MAN PUT IN HIS POCKET SO 9X3=27+2=29. SO MY QUESTION IS WHERE DID THE OTHER £1 GO
2006-08-27 23:41:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
yup, i heard the hotel one before too, and i find both the questions very very STUPID. for Christ's sake, TOTAL AMT SHOP-GUY HAS: 25 + 2 = 27
TOTAL AMT WOMEN GET BACK: 3
SO, IT'S 30 IN TOTAL
ALRIGHT??????????????
2006-08-28 00:00:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Err, the £2 the man put in his pocket also comes from £27 the ladies paid. So, £27 -£2 = £25 which is the price of the radio. £27 +£3 (£1 each ) = £30 which is what ladies paid.
2006-08-28 08:21:17 · answer #2 · answered by ritesh10dulkar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is none. The reasoning is faulty. You don't add the $2 in the man's pocket to the $27, because it's part of the $27 the women paid. The $27 gets added to the $3 returned to the women to total the initial $30 (sorry, but I don't know what key to hit for the British pound, so I changed my answer to dollars -it still works, as it's still Math).
2006-08-28 06:48:55 · answer #3 · answered by Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the cost =25
25+2[in his pocket]=27+3[with the 3 WOMEN ]=30
2006-08-28 09:16:19 · answer #4 · answered by k_abhixxx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lost in translation. the radio was 25 dollars plus the two the owner kept is 27 dollars total paid then the three he gave then back is 30 dollars. rephrase the answer.
2006-08-28 06:56:59 · answer #5 · answered by pansy1532 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
l've heard this before except it was a hotel room and US$, so the answer to your riddle is that the 3 women paid less than 9 pounds each and that is where the missing pound is.
2006-08-28 06:45:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The balance is not equal to the amount taken out.
2006-08-28 07:26:03 · answer #7 · answered by skillpyre 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard this one many times but still I dont know the answer! Plz tell me.
2006-08-28 08:01:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Inflation. Very old riddle.
2006-08-28 06:50:01 · answer #9 · answered by police 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the government got it
2006-08-28 21:32:54 · answer #10 · answered by dreamweaver021557 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋