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????
2006-12-23 08:29:08 · 10 answers · asked by JisLOST 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
You're not trying to find the thirty dollars - you're trying to find twenty five dollars - the 3 guys paid thirty, minus the 3 they got back, minus the 2 in the clerk's pocket - you're not supposed to add them when he gives it back, it's still part of the same thirty.
2006-12-23 08:32:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok - the room was $25 vice 30. So the room cost was $8.33 per man. The bellhop gave them each $1, which means each man spent $9.33 on the room. So, in reality, the bellhop made it so the men paid $28 for the room (9.333 x 3=28). Then pocketed the extra 2 bucks. The rest of the story is that the manager later asked the men if they got their $5. Then the bellhop was fired, and the men turned the motel into the Better Business Bureau, had them shut down, and then sued them for mental anguish. So, the men each pocketed a cool $1.2 million and did not care at all about the dollar that was never missing to begin with.
2006-12-23 08:38:26 · answer #2 · answered by Mangy Coyote 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
$27 the men paid to the $2 the bellboy has. The $2 the Bellboy has came FROM the $27 the men paid. Think of it as a conservation of funds problem.
If you consider the original $30, then the men have $3, the bellboy has $2 and the hotel has $25. No missing dollar.
If you consider what the men actually paid, which is $27, the bellboy has $2 and the hotel has $25, again no missing dollar.
The way to work this out in your mind so that it doesn't bug you any more is to examine why you want to ADD the $2 to the $27. There is no reason for doing that. You only did it because the puzzle told you to.
2006-12-23 09:21:59 · answer #3 · answered by vivgirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The manager has $25, the friends have $3 total, the clerk has $2, that adds up to $30.
2006-12-23 08:34:30 · answer #4 · answered by Bored Enough To Be Here 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what you should do is give every dollar a number. the guys pay all 30...then they get back 3 $ and the bellboy gets 2$...so where is the missunderstanding?
they now have 3$...the clerk has 25...so 3+25=28...and the bellboy has 2$...thus 3+25+2=30...no mistake there
2006-12-23 08:37:47 · answer #5 · answered by robot_extraordinaire 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They did not pay $9 each. They paid $9.33, as the bell hop took $2 dollars leaving 28 and 28 divided by 3 equals 9.33. The extra 33 cents adds up to a dollar.
2006-12-23 17:36:10 · answer #6 · answered by physical 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no missing dollar because they were getting back 5$ so the bill way 25$ .
2006-12-23 08:45:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't pay $29 that guy took $2 so you have to go into decimals wich i don't feel like doing.
2006-12-23 09:39:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you stole it!Joke!
2006-12-23 22:35:55 · answer #9 · answered by free2fly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
where?
2006-12-23 08:34:08 · answer #10 · answered by AvesPro 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋