Three young blokes are away for the night on a stag do. Finding a hotel room for £30.00 for the night, each paying £10.00. Once in their room they find it very poorly set out and ask the manager for some kind of compensation, The manager sends £5.00 up to them with the porter. As they cannot find a way of splitting 5 between 3 they each decide to take £1.00 each making it only £9.00 each for the room for the night and they tip the porter the £2.00 that is left. so work it out! 3 x £9.00 = £27.00 then add the £2.00 tip for the porter. this should equal £29.00 so where's the other £1.00???????
2007-03-02 07:40:10 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
25 + 5 =30
5 pounds given to the porter.
one pound was given to each man =3 pounds
2 pounds for the porter!
25+3+2=30
2007-03-02 07:47:31 · answer #1 · answered by Snow Bunnie 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I cannot make the pound sign so I'll do it with $.
If the manager refunded $5, then he kept $25
$3 went to the blokes, $2 to the porter = $5
$25 + $5 is $30
OR
They DIDN'T pay $9 each. They paid a total of $27. $25 to the hotel, and $2 to the porter. Plus the $3 they kept which equals a total of $30.
2007-03-02 07:54:40 · answer #2 · answered by Write Brain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't each pay £9.00 for the room. They all paid £10, so in total they paid £30. But with the £5 discount, in total all they paid was £25 and not £27(= 3 x 9). From their £5 discount, the three of them took £1 (this makes the total money accounted for £28) and the porter takes the remaining £2.
Sorted lol =D
2007-03-02 07:54:57 · answer #3 · answered by Deathwish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3x10=£30
-£5 compensation=£25
+£3= (from compensation)£28
+£2= Porter
=£30
2007-03-02 08:06:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no other pound. The question says it all: of the original £30, the hotelier kept £25 for the bill, the porter kept £2 for the tip, and the three gents kept £3 in change.
£30...done.
2007-03-02 07:56:12 · answer #5 · answered by Jon H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a trick with the wording. The wording leads you to believe that you should take £27 and add £2 to get £29, which seems to be £1 short.
In reality, it's £27 - £2, bringing you to £25, which is the original £30 paid - the £5 refund.
2007-03-02 07:47:59 · answer #6 · answered by nick_g22 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
not to be rude but here in america we answered that question sometime ago they spent 27 received three back =30 also 25.00in cash register three to the blokes and the porter gets2.00=30.00 adding 27+2 doesnt factor into the equation its an oxymoron
2007-03-02 07:52:46 · answer #7 · answered by ____ 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They kept the left over money as the room was reduced to a cheaper rate it worked out a pound cheaper
2007-03-02 07:49:05 · answer #8 · answered by pettra 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One night costs 30 pounds. With the information they give you, you got 29 pounds. The other pound goes towrds paying fro the night.
2007-03-02 11:08:44 · answer #9 · answered by Angel 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
with the tip they gave to the porter
2007-03-02 10:49:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋