Ok...So...
3 MEN GO INTO A MOTEL. THE MAN BEHIND THE DESK SAID
THE ROOM IS $30,
SO EACH MAN PAID $10 AND WENT TO THE ROOM.
A WHILE LATER THE MAN BEHIND THE DESK REALIZED THE
ROOM WAS ONLY $25,
SO HE SENT THE BELLBOY TO THE 3 GUYS' ROOM WITH $5.
ON THE WAY THE BELLBOY COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO
SPLIT $5 EVENLY BETWEEN 3 MEN,
SO HE GAVE EACH MAN A $1 AND KEPT THE OTHER $2 FOR
HIMSELF.
THIS MEANT THAT THE 3 MEN EACH PAID $9 FOR THE ROOM,
WHICH IS A TOTAL OF $27; ADD THE $2 THAT THE BELLBOY
KEPT = $29.
WHERE IS THE OTHER DOLLAR?
Please explain!!
2007-09-07 09:34:09 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Answer to The Missing Dollar
The answer is in the way the question is worded. You cannot add what one person HAS to what someone else has PAID and come up with any kind of a meaningful number, you have to subtract.
Each man has paid $9. $9 x 3 = $27
The bellhop has $2. -$2
Difference = $25
The hotel clerk has the other 25 dollars.
To look at it from the standpoint of the original $30.
Each man has $1. $1 x 3 = $3
The bellhop has $2.
The hotel clerk has $25.
Total $30
The answer is that there is no missing dollar. Adding $27 and $2 (to get $29) is the wrong operation. They paid $27, $2 went to the bellboy, and $25 went to the motel. You have to subtract $27 minus $2 to get $25. There never was a $29; it has nothing to do with anything.
2007-09-07 09:44:47 · answer #1 · answered by мσℓℓу 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
$30 -$25 = $5 - $2 - $3 ($1 X 3) = 0
2007-09-07 09:44:48 · answer #2 · answered by Limestoner62 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bellboy's $2 had been included in the $27 the guests paid, meaning that it should not be added to it but subtracted, giving the result of the $25 the hotel got.
2007-09-07 09:44:34 · answer #3 · answered by hobo h 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It didn't GO anywhere. This is one of those little paradoxes in math, such as being able to "prove" that 1=0.9999... etc. You can't reach this anomaly from the other direction, say they underpaid. Don't look at it as "they paid 27 dollars" because they didn't. They paid thirty, were cheated 2, and given back three. Perhaps there is a clever answer to this that I just havn't grasped, but there's my answer.
2007-09-07 09:44:59 · answer #4 · answered by chappel90266 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brain Freeze..Brain Freeze
2007-09-07 09:40:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
10
x3
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30
-5
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25
+3
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28
+2
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20
You cant do the math like that, it isn't the right equasion (spelling?) and the work is above you
2007-09-07 09:43:42 · answer #6 · answered by Forksided 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard this before. It's just one of those math mysteries that can't be explained.
2007-09-07 10:11:02 · answer #7 · answered by Ladybug II 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-09-07 09:38:45 · answer #8 · answered by ignoramus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoa. I don't know.
2007-09-07 09:42:53 · answer #9 · answered by RentHead 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you lost me at goodbye.........
2007-09-07 09:37:56 · answer #10 · answered by Yasmin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋