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Question

three men book into a hotel it cost £30 so they pay £10 each and go to there room, a bit later the proprietor realises he has overcharged by £5 he gives the excess to the bellboy to give to the customers. On the way to the room the bell boy tries to work out how to split it equally between three people giving up he takes £2 for himself and gives the men £1 each back this means that the customers have now paid £9 each, 3x9=27 the bell boy kept £2, 27+2=29 where did the other £1 go?

Answer 1

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
I AM TIRED OF THIS RIDDLE
FOR CHRIST'S SAKE,
TOTAL AMOUNT CUSTOMERS PAY: 25 + 2 = 27
TOTAL AMOUNT LEFT WITH CUSTOMERS (THE MONEY THEY GET BACK) : 3
SO, IT'S 30 IN TOTAL!!!!
NOW ENOUGH WITH IT ALREADY
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Answer 2

No thats not right.....Each paid £10 to total £30. £5 overpayment to be split 3 ways....bell boy takes £2 and gives each man £1 each which totals £5. This means that the room should have cost £25 and not £30. £25 split 3 ways is £8.33 each. Each man should have had back £1.66, so the bell boy is a thief really and the men missed out on 66p each. There is no other pound to be found as £10x3 = £30 less £5 = £25, £5 overpayment made up of £2 bellboy = £1x3 for each man totals £5

Answer 3

The thing is that the actual cost should have been 25 pounds. It only became 27 pounds, bcuz the bell boy kept the 2 extra pounds for himself. So actually the hotel got 25 pounds from the 3 men and the bell boy tipped himself (not adding to hotel´s income) with 2 the pounds. So actually in all the men only payed (25 + 2 = 27) 27 pounds, not 29 pounds.

Answer 4

Forget the cost and concentrate on the money.

Initially 3 men have £10 each = £30.

Then (after they have paid), one man, (the proprieter) has all £30.

Then the proprieter has £25 and the bellboy £5 = £30

And finally the proprieter has £25, the bellboy £2 and each of the three men have £1 = £30

Answer 5

It doesn't exist.

There's the £25 they paid plus the £5 overpayment.

That £5 splits into £2 for the bellboy and £1 each for the three customers.

The 3 x £9 is a distraction.

Answer 6

You're calculations are flawed. You need to look at who has paid and who has received.

Each guest has paid net £9 so toal £27, this is the number to reconcile back to and is done so by adding the net £25 tha proprietor has received to the net £2 the bell boy received. Simple.

Answer 7

the bell buy decided he'll take $3 instead of $2

Answer 8

Go on an accounting course it's the first thing you learn.

Answer 9

if i hear this stupid scenario about 30 quid one more time im going to scream!!! swear ive seen it about 5 times now from different people

Answer 10

You are the culprit...not of pocketing the £1, but of repeating the same riddle, by .......