What is the Answer to this Riddle? (More)?

Question

3 salesmen come to town for a convention & find the last hotel in town with only one room, the room is $30 so they agree to split the cost of the room for the night and pay $10 each. After they go to the room the manager realizes the room was only supposed to be $25 and not $30 so he sends the Bagboy up to the room with a $5 refund for the 3 salesmen. When the bagboy gets there and explains the situation, each of the salesmen take back $1 each, and give the bagboy a $2 Tip...Here is the Question:
If each of the salesmen took back $1, that means they paid $9 each for the room.... so if $9 multiplied by three is $27...plus the $2 Tip they gave to the Bagboy ($27+$2=$29)
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER DOLLAR?

Answer 1

The facts in this riddle are clear: There is an initial $30 charge. It should have been $25, so $5 must be returned and accounted for. $3 is given to the 3 friends, $2 is kept by the bellhop - there you have the $5. The trick to this riddle is that the addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times to misdirect your thinking - and quite successfully for most. Each of the 3 friends did indeed pay $9, not $10, and as far as the friends are concerned, they paid $27 for the night. But we know that the clerk will tell us that they were charged only $25 and when you add the $3 returned with the $2 kept by the bellhop, you come up with $30.

another way to look at it:

The following night two friends check into the same motel. Once again the clerk charges them $30, or $15 per person. After the clerk remembers the total rate is only $25 he sends the bellhop upstairs with five $1 bills to pay the two friends back. The bellhop knows he got away with larceny once so he tries it again. But this time he pockets $3 and returns $2 to the hotel guests ($1 per guest). So each of the two guests got $1 back from their original $15. Therefore each paid $14 which is a total payment of $28 for the room. Now the bellhop has $3, the guests paid $28, for a total of $31....THERE'S THE MISSING DOLLAR!!!!

Answer 2

They have paid 27 Dollars and that includes the tip paid / kept by the Bagboy, they received back 1 Dollar each total 3 Dollars ! Thus 27 +3 = 30 Dollars ! Where is the question of one Dollar man ?!

Answer 3

When they each took back a dollar that brought their contribution to 9 dollars each but not their hotel fee since it was 25$. The bagboy got the 2 extra out of the five so they each gave him 2/3 of a dollar which they couldn't have done in any other way ie can't give 66.66 repeating cents.

Answer 4

There was no 30$
the room was 25$ + 2$ tip = 27$
(9 $ each

Answer 5

simply this is the answer they paid 25 for the room they gave 2 as tips so 25+2=27 each got 1 thats totally 3 so 25+2+3=30 no dollar lost got it?

Answer 6

Nothing.. your calculation is wrong.. I think its a deliberate one to confuse the people..

3 salesmen.. Room Cost 30$
10$ per Salesmen...
25 / 3 = 8.33$
So 8.33 + 1 $ = 9.33...
9.33 x 3 = 27.99 ( 28 )
28 + 2 ( Bagboy ) = 30...

thats it...

Answer 7

$25 divided by 3 is 8 & one third. Plus 1 is 9 & one third multiple by 3 is $28 plus $2 to the bus boy equals $30. So they didn't actully pay $9 they paid $9.3!

Answer 8

dude your premise is faulty. 25 for the room + 2 dollar tip =27. 3 left over

Answer 9

$25 was the room fee
3 to the guests
2 for the bell boy....... $30

Answer 10

Well the total cost of the room after the $5.00 refund would be $8.33/Each for the night. Each person kept $1.00, which now brings us a total of 9.33 each for the night. Each person tipped the belhop .66, this now brings us a total of $10.00/each. lol where is this other dollar? That wasn't to hard.