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Question

3 friends pay 10 dollars each for a room in the hotel....($30 a room). They go to their room.....but turns out the room only costs $25 a night....so the guy from room service decides to give them $5 back, but since there are three people, he decides to keep the 2 dollars and gives the 3 dollars back ($1 dollar for each friend)....so

each one of the friends has paid $9 each....so thats $27...plus the $2 the waiter kept, so thats $29....wheres the missing dollar?

correct answer with the correct explanation gets 10 points!

c'mon....nooo
theres a better and a more logical answer....
it does not include decimals!!!

Answer 1

no missin dollar
The facts in this riddle are clear: There is an initial $30 charge. It should have been $25, so $5 must be returned and accounted for. $3 is given to the 3 friends, $2 is kept by the bellhop - there you have the $5. The trick to this riddle is that the addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times to misdirect your thinking - and quite successfully for most. Each of the 3 friends did indeed pay $9, not $10, and as far as the friends are concerned, they paid $27 for the night. But we know that the clerk will tell us that they were charged only $25 and when you add the $3 returned with the $2 kept by the bellhop, you come up with $30.

--->or the chicken from the cross the road joke ate it<---

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Answer 2

The 3 friends paid $30 but the room was $25 so guy from room service refund them $3 and the waiter kept the $2. (Add them up $25+$3+$2 = $30). There is NO missing $1.

If you want to know how much each friend paid then divide the $25 (cost of room) + $3 (refunded) which totals $28 by the number of friends which is 3.

28/3 = so each paid $9.33

Answer 3

There is no missing dollar. They paid $9 each which was $27. $25 for the room and $2 which the cheating waiter kept.

Answer 4

You told the riddle incorrectly. The men paid $25 for the room and the waiter got $2. Each man got $1 back.

25+2+1+1+1=$30

Answer 5

The paid $25 plus the waiter gave them back $3 and the waiter kept $2 which equals $30.Is that right?

Answer 6

The men had paid 30 dollars. They got 3 dollars back. They paid 27 dollars. The 2 dollars the manager took makes it 25 dollars.
30-5=25
25+2(the manager's money)=27
27 is the amount the men paid.

Answer 7

They each got their dollar back. So technically they did spend 27 but it didn't go toward the room. Room was 25 no matter what they paid. They paid 2 to the bellhop. They paid 27(total) - 2(bellhop)=25(room)

So 30-2-1-1-1=25

Answer 8

NO ONE OWNS THE DOLLAR HERES THE EQUATION:


$25+($2+$1+$1+$1)=N

N=$30

Answer 9

$27(spent)+$3(back)=$30 OR
$25(spent)+$2(waiter)+$3(back)=$30

The two dollars the waiter took is included in the price of the room in this case.

Answer 10

If the waiter gave back three dollars and kept two. then 1 guy paid 10 dollars and the other two paid 9. therefore one dude paid more.