Three men go into a motel. The desk clerk said the room was $30, so each man paid $10 and went to the room. A while later, the desk clerk realized the room was only $25, so he sent the bellboy to the three guys' room with $5. On the way, the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split $5 evenly between three men, so he gave each man $1 and kept the other $2 for himself.
This means that the 3 men each paid $9 for the room, which is a total of $27. Add to that the $2 the bellboy kept and the total is $29. Where is the other dollar?
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They actually paid 25, got 3 back and lost 2 to the punk bell boy
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It's a trick question. The $30 that you started off with was taken down to $25. The bellboy gave the people $3 in total which subtracted their total cost to $27. The extra $2 went to the bellboy which subtracts the total to $25 which was the total cost that you wanted. This is really a false question because there was no extra dollar. You needed to subtract the $2 instead of adding it.
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Good job!
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You -blam!-ing hippo