Who has the money?

Question

Three men are traveling together. They each have 10 dollars on them. They stop at a hotel overnight to rent a room. They leave the clerk the 30 dollars they have to rent the room for the night. The clerk realizes that they overpaid since the room was only 25 dollars per night and gives the five dollars to the busboy and asks him to return the money to the men. When the busboy gets to the room, he realizes that there are three men there and he cannot divide the five dollars evenly by three men. He decides to give each man a dollar and to keep the remaining two dollars for himself as a tip.

So each man paid 9 dollars for the room (started with 10 dollars and ended with 1 dollar) The busboy wound up with 2 dollars for a tip. 9*3+2=29. What happened to the last dollar? Who has it?

This was a riddle my dad told me when I was little and it took me a long time to figure it out. I'll choose the first correct answer with lthe correct ogic behind it as the best answer at the end.

Answer 1

There is no dollar. The room was $25.00, the busboy, got $2.00, and each of the three men got $1.00. $25.00 + $2.00 + $3.00 = $30,00.

Answer 2

There is no missing dollar. Currently each man has $1, 1*3=3. The busboy has $2, and the hotel has $25 for the room.

3+2+25= $30

Answer 3

The room cost 25 dollars
Each of the 3 men has 1 dollar
The bell boy has 2 dollars

25 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 30

Answer 4

30-2 for the bellhop is 28, the room charge was 25 and a 1@ was returned =28, the bellhop kept 2 and that's 30.
I just pawned a 50.00 bill for 30 dollars and sell you the pawn ticket for 25. Who made out best on the deal?

Answer 5

the busboi took it as a tip b/c he had to responsibly take back $5....if it was me they wouldnt have gotten that $5 so yea he kept it as a tip♥

Answer 6

the clerk?
or no one has it?