3 men share a hotel room,because it is cheaper,it costs £30 so they pay £10 each.later the deskclerk realizes

Question

his mistake it was £25 not £30 and sends the bellboy with a fiver to give to the 3 men but the bellboy doesnt know how to divide £5 into 3.so he gives them £1 each and takes the other £2 for the charity box.so now they have paid £9 each which is £9x3=£27.the bellboy had £2 which adds up to £29.so where did the other pound go to

Answer 1

Your trying to do 2 different sum the confusion come from try to combine them.

Of course, no contradiction is actually taking place. The guests have each paid $9 for a total of $27. Of this, $25 has gone to the cost of the room, and $2 has been pocketed by the bellhop. So the relevant numbers to consider are the total amount spent and where it has gone, which are fully accounted for. Similarly, of the original $30 spent, $25 has been retained by the lodge proprietor, $3 has been returned to the guests, and $2 has been pocketed by the bellhop. So again, there is no contradiction here. The fallacy arises in trying to add the $27 paid by the guests to the $2 kept by the bellhop to obtain $30, when in actuality, it is $25 that should be added to the $2 to correctly obtain the total amount spent of $27. It is accountancy, of all things, that supplies a concise answer: "You must not add debits to credits." Money flowing out is a debit, money flowing in is a credit, and they always balance over a transaction

Answer 2

Statement: "they have paid £9 each which is £9x3=£27.the bellboy had £2 which adds up to £29"

Wrong. Boy's £2 are included in £27 (hotel has remaining £25).
And men got their £3 back. £3+£27=£30

Answer 3

The £5 is being deducted from the £30, therefore,

You wrongly added the £2 to the £27 when you should have deducted it (since you are deducting from £30). The £27 is arrived at by deducting £3 from £30. To say it is arrived at by multyplying £9 by 3 is a clever restatement designed to confuse.

i e £30 less £3 less £2 = £25 or
£25 + £3 + £2 = £30

If you cross the sums or mix adding with subtaction you will get the £1 error.

Answer 4

This is a trick.

The 3 times 9 part is misleading. They have not paid £9 each for the room.
The men have in total paid £25 for the room and £2 to charity.

£30 - £25 - £2 = £3. And this £3 was their change.

Answer 5

This question has a very easy answer. The actual amount paid by the guys was 27 instead of 30. They need to pay only 25 so 2 Rs went to the bellboy. Which gives the correct equation. Instead of 27+2=29 it will be 27-2=25

Answer 6

They haven't paid £9 each, they've paid £25 between them, adding £3 in change and the £2 in the charity box, that makes £30.

Answer 7

ahh lucifer. you can't have my soul. say im the bellboy. man1=10,man2=10,man3=10.ok.
i realize it was 25 but i have 30. so i get a five.
i give 1 to each man. man1=9, man2-9,man3=9.ok 27 but i have 2. 27+2 =29 not 30. but if you minus it from 29,28,27,26,25 that's 5 exact. you dont add the money fool. HAH.

Answer 8

it didnt go anywhere. if they paid 30 euros. and the bell hop gave each of the 3 men a euro thats 3 euros plus the 2 he gave to the charity box thats 5 altogether there is nothing missing

Answer 9

The bellboy ATE the one pound *nods*

Answer 10

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