Missing Money ?

Question

Three men stay at a hotel for the night. The innkeeper charges thirty Pounds per room per night. The men rent one room; each pays ten Pounds. The Porter leads the men to their room. Later, the innkeeper discovers he has overcharged the men and asks the Porter to return five pounds to them. On the way upstairs, the porter realizes that five pounds can't be evenly split among three men, so he decides to keep two pounds for himself and return one pound to each man.

At this point, the men have paid nine pounds each, totalling 27. The Porter has two, which adds up to 29. Where did the thirtieth pound go?

For all of you transatlantic People a Pound (£) is British Currency worth about $1.9646 at todays exchange rates

They qualified for a discount by sharing the room

Answer 1

The problem starts with addition/subtraction, but is attempted to be resolved with multiplication. There is no true "solution" to this problem; rather, it is a simple matter of adding up all the component parts:

30 pounds paid originally
25 pounds is actual cost; 5 pounds are returned.
Porter keeps 2 pounds, which leaves 3 pounds.
25 pounds of actual cost, plus 3 pounds refund to each man, plus 2 pounds for the porter equals 30 pounds.

Answer 2

I wonder still how many variants are there for this riddle of one pound missing out of 30. I have had seen a couple of them in this place and again this is the third time. Any way, Lisa Bee got it right already, but I would like to add to it some explanation.

Its a classic case of verbal play of calculation. The actual calculation is that the three men paid 25lb for stay, 2lb were kept for himself by the porter, and the rest three pounds are distributed among the three men equally. So the last sentence has the trick, it states that men paid 9 lb each totalling 27, and instead of counting the three pounds that they received back from the porter, it says to count the two pounds the porter took, which infact, have already been counted in the per head cost of 9 pounds.

Answer 3

I've answered this question before but can't really remember. You can't add 2 to 27 becos u've subtracted 1 from each man. So that would be 25 and 25+5=30.

Answer 4

Wait, why did the inkeeper think he over charged them?

3 men stay in 1 room
1 room = 30 pounds
each man pays 10 pounds.

They paid the correct amount, right?

Answer 5

The innkeeper still has it...
30total-5porter=25innkeeper

3back to the 3men
2kept the porter
25has the innkeeper
equally 30

the innkeeper has it or my brain is fried (which is a good possibilty)

good riddle!

Answer 6

The 30th lb?????

You meant the 1 lb. The 1 lb is missing.

The porter kept more than the puzzle stated and kept the 1 lb for himself.

Answer 7

which will be complicated. Melina can climb the ladder speedier yet Beth can use the ladder as a weapon more effective. i'd wager Melina, when you consider that they don't favor to make Beth a champion for some unknown reason.

Answer 8

5 pounds divided by 3 equals 1.666 punds

Answer 9

I got it years ago

Answer 10

dont know try looking