Are you good at mathes???? try this simple one out??????

Question

three students buy a second hand tv for thier apartment and they pay $30 dollars for it! but as they walk out of the shop the sales assistant runs after them and tells them that there is $5 dollars discount that she forgot about! so she hands back over $5 to one of the students! the students cant decide how to split the $5 dollars between them so they hand back $2 to the assistant and take $1 dollar reach! so the students paid $9 dollars each....... 3 multiplied by 9 =27+the 2 they gave back to the assistant! ========29!!! what happened to the other dollar????????

Answer 1

haha!!! that's a good party trick! The two dollars they gave back to the assistant is included in the 9x3=27 dollars they paid (the store kept 27 dollars, 25+2). Add the 3 dollars they were given back makes 30.

Answer 2

The trick is that the numbers you are adding and subtracting aren't the relevant ones.

Look at it this way. Three roommates each contribute $10 to buy a used TV. They go to the store and find that the TV is on sale for $25. They each take back a dollar from the pool, so they have each now paid $9, for a total of $27. Since no one wants change, and they apparently live in a tax-free state, they have $2 leftover. They give that to the sales girl because she is cute.

The trick is to look at it this way,

3 x ($10 from each roommate) = $30
the store gets $30, the roommates get the TV

3 x ($9 from each roomate) = $27
the store gets $25, the salesgirl gets $2, the roommates get the TV. Basically, the $5 comes off the store's bottom line. The numbers in your question seem to make sense when you don't account for the different amounts that the store takes in the different scenarios.

Answer 3

If they paid $27 for the tv (they gave the clerk 25 plus 2) they retained $1 dollar each = 27 + 3 = $30.

Answer 4

Well if i were the students i give $30 and get $5 back
so now i have $5 , i give $2 back to the assistant ,
So i have $3 and now the assistant has $27.
Each Student gets 3$.
So each student paid $ 8.3 but when they gave back $2
that means they paid $9 each
3 multiplied by $9 is $27
And The kids each have $1 that they shared from the discount
$27 + ($1 x 3)
= $ 30

That was Hard

Answer 5

Not sure if i understand this but....the kids each paid $8.333 per person, not 9. Then they gave 2 back which is 27 total. They kept 1 apiece (3 total) and that equals 30.

orignial price of $30-$5 discount =$25 for the TV
$25TV +$2 they give back =$27
$27+$3 they keep =$30.


i jus think the Numbers in ur question are stupid and inaccurate...this isnt math, just a miswritten question with misleading information.

Answer 6

There is no missing dollar. The students have paid $27 and have kept $3 for themselves and that adds up to $30. Not a real puzzle... just a mistake in math! You cannot tally the clerks total twice, it's already included in the $27 the students have paid. The equation is incorrect...if they paid $27 and the clerk kept $2...then that does not add up to anything.

Answer 7

there was never 1 single dollar. They each had a dollar after they gave the assistant the 2

Answer 8

Nothing happened to the "other dollar"
TV costs $25
Each Roommate got $1 back
Assistant recieved a $2 tip

25+1+1+1+2=30

All $30 accounted for.

In your question you are only allowing for a cost of $24 for the TV, which is $1 short of the actual cost.

Answer 9

Trick question. They hand back $2 and take $1 each, so that's five dollars.

This is on the order of saying "I have 11 fingers". Counting backwards on one hand "10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6" and then holding up the other hand and saying "and 5 makes 11".

Answer 10

$27 less $2.00 = $25 (what they paid for the TV)