$ THE MISSING DOLLAR RIDDLE $

[bytchzilla]

$ THE MISSING DOLLAR RIDDLE $



Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????

[hype]

Isnt it $27 - $2 = $25 instead of adding?

[Observador]

i stole it lol:P anyway this is a famous on but yeah ur right hype..

the thing u do is 30 - 3 + 2 = 29 instead of 30 - 3 -2 + 5 =30:>

[spirited_soul]

Well if the room cost $25 and they got back $3 and the bellhop kept $2 then $25 + $3 + $2 = $30

or your way 27-2 = 25 which is what they were supposed to pay

[Observador]

yep i remember someone told me this in different kind not with hotel and stuff. but i kept thinking like wttfff =/ ??? ofc i was only 8 and stupid:P but it made me think alot:P anyway im wondering to what kind of hotels u go if 3 persons is only 25 euro:P