Three men are to share a cab from the airport into town. When they arrive, the meter reads $25. Each man gives

Question

Three men are to share a cab from the airport into town. When they arrive, the meter reads $25. Each man gives the driver a $10 bill. She hands them five $1 bills as change. Each man takes one of the $1 bills. They give the driver the remaining two $1 bills as a tip.

Each man has not spent nine dollars and the driver has two dollars for a total of $29. Where is the other dollar? Your challenge is to explain this paradox.

Answer 1

That is a very old one. It is usually asked about three men who rent a hotel room and the bellhop has to deal with the difference in room rates. Get a new riddle - this one has been overdone

Answer 2

She only gets $27, not $29. 10x3=30-5=25+2=27

Then the men get the remaining 3 dollars

Answer 3

The change for each person should have been $5/3, or 1.67 each.

Since the cabbie gives the group five dollars, and not exact change to each person, they cannot split the remaining dollar. Giving the cabbie $2 is equivalent to each of the men giving 67 each as a tip.

Answer 4

each man spent 10 dollars and got 1 dollar back that is 9

the driver has 27 dollars and 2 mystery dollars.

i think the driver gave them 2 fake dollars and kept 2 real dollars.

or just because each man took one of the dollar bills it doesnt mean that he kept it.

Answer 5

works for me..dudes have $1 each
driver has $27
each actually gave the driver $ 2/3 as a tip X 3 = $2

Answer 6

There is no other dollar.

Each man spent $9 (including the tip).
Your riddle adds the tip twice to reach $29.

Answer 7

10+10+10=30 SHE RECEIVED 30
30 - 25 = 5 SHE RETURNED 5
5 - 3 = 2 SHE RECEIVED A TOTAL OF 27
27 + 3 = 30 THE GUYS GET BACK 1 DLL EACH AND THAT A TOTAL OF 30.....

Answer 8

This is an addition prob. but to humor you, each person spent $9 on the fair, and each paid a percentage of the tip.

Answer 9

Between the seats in the cab? lol

Answer 10

Cant use mutiplication for an addition problem