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04/30/2007 12:18 am
3 guys pay $10 each and get a hotel room for $30....the manager later realizes they were charged $5 too much and gives the bellboy a fiver to give back to them. The bellboy says to himself..."I will give each guy $1 back and keep the $2" now the men each paid $9 equaling $27 and the bellboy has $2. Where is the other $1?
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04/30/2007 12:31 am
I've heard this before, I won't ruin it for anyone who hasn't.. the first time I heard it, I couldn't figuare it out until someone told me :p
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04/30/2007 1:52 am
Originally Posted by: z0s0_jp3 guys pay $10 each and get a hotel room for $30....the manager later realizes they were charged $5 too much and gives the bellboy a fiver to give back to them. The bellboy says to himself..."I will give each guy $1 back and keep the $2" now the men each paid $9 equaling $27 and the bellboy has $2. Where is the other $1?


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04/30/2007 2:10 am
I think I see the flaw in this problem, but I don't know how to explain it.
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04/30/2007 3:08 am
Messed up. You look at it in the sense that they each payed $9, then they theoretically only payed $27 for the night and the bellboy pocketed $2...bring you to $29. Yet you look at it in the sense of only being charged $25, $3 were given back, bellboy pockets $2. Brings you to a $30 total. Strange....
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04/30/2007 3:21 am
I think I figured it out :D
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04/30/2007 3:25 am
Dammit :mad: no I did not
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04/30/2007 3:33 am
Ok, I think I may have come up with the words to explain it.

>It makes sense at first glance to think that they paid a total of $27 ($9 each), because they paid $10 each and got $1 back. However, since the manager overcharged them $5, the price of the room was actually $25, which means they actually paid about $8.33 apiece. So the manager has $25, the bellhop has $2, and the three guys have $1 each.

25+2+1+1+1 = 30.
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04/30/2007 3:35 am
I got it :p
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04/30/2007 12:37 pm
Originally Posted by: earthman buckOk, I think I may have come up with the words to explain it.

>It makes sense at first glance to think that they paid a total of $27 ($9 each), because they paid $10 each and got $1 back. However, since the manager overcharged them $5, the price of the room was actually $25, which means they actually paid about $8.33 apiece. So the manager has $25, the bellhop has $2, and the three guys have $1 each.

25+2+1+1+1 = 30.
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You got it.
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