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    $ 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????

  • #2
    Tricky wording there. Makes you subtract at the wrong time and get all thrown off

    Uhm... So they think they paid $27 for the night ($9 x 3 = $27) instead of $30.

    The clerk knows they paid $25.

    The bellhop stole $2.

    $25 + $2 = $27

    Plus the $3 they each now have in their pockets = $30
    The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    • #3
      You beat me to it, bejug.

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      • #4
        Worst riddle ever. So if you're adding 2 to the 27, that means you added 2 of the 3 dollars the friends got to the 25 but left one out? Greaaaaaaaat.

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        • #5
          just give me the money damn it

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