Has anyone got the answer to this one because I havent.
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 $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????
2006-12-03 18:48:36 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
dont divde the room by 9$.
30-25=5
keep it at 25, the error is thinking about dividing the room cost. when u divide u lose the dollar.
if u give 3 dollars back then it is 28 and u cant divide it by 3 so the dollar is missing when u come up with 27.
2006-12-03 19:01:45 · answer #1 · answered by supraman126 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know that one. It is just a matter of wrong order of operation in Math. Because you have to add the $2 first before you divide because the adding will be within brackets. You shouldn't add the $1 with the -$10. When the crook took the $2 out of the $5, it means that the poeple actually only paid $28 not $27. And you might wonder as $28 cannot be divided among three. Now that is because $5 could not be divided by three.
2006-12-03 19:06:58 · answer #2 · answered by Hardrock 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You idiot when the Clerk return $5 the total of the charge for the room is $25. The bellhop got $2 out of $5 that means the total of which they paid is $28 not $27. Make sence? haha good riddle and i didnt mean to call u idiot. it was a joke
2006-12-03 20:11:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in your pocket just joking
they paid 30 out of which they were returned 3 thus 30 - 3 = 27. this 27 has 2 that are in bellhop pocket . so no doller is missing but the 3 friends had paid 2 dollers extra.i.e 0.66666...... dollers extra to the motal
2006-12-03 21:01:27 · answer #4 · answered by dilu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the bellhops pocket...they paid 10 dollars each they should have gotten $1.67,$1.66 and another $1.66 back. no matter what they still got ripped off and should take after the bellhop when they get the print out for their room I would lol.
2006-12-03 19:00:19 · answer #5 · answered by IM A BITCH 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have it all wrong... you just have the wrong computation... look here $25 + $3 + $2 = $30... now if you try to add all of it up by ($9 x 3) + $2 = $29... you don't get the right answer... this is an example of a trick... not a riddle...
2006-12-03 19:07:33 · answer #6 · answered by ulol k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, your think to function the bell hop's $2 to the $25 paid to the motel. Then the $3 given to the three acquaintances, subsequently complete $30. hence the three acquaintances have been suckered back for paying $9 each and each by way of fact the bellhop took $2 out their refund. so actual, the three buddy have been meant to pay $8.33 each and each.
2016-10-13 23:23:40 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were only supposed to pay $25 for the room, not $27. That's got something to do with it... too tired to figure out the rest
2006-12-03 19:00:17 · answer #8 · answered by myyahooanswersaccount1184 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The clerk took it.
2006-12-03 20:02:09 · answer #9 · answered by chilling_1ce 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. Maybe the guy that posted this the last time took it.
2006-12-03 19:06:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋