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Classic Riddle

 
6th December 2009, 10:54am
#1
by crashfreze
South Carolina United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 113

Three men go to a hotel and they are charged $30.00 for a room.  Each man pays with a $10.00 bill.  After they are in their room the clerk realizes they overpaid so he gave the bellhop five $1.00 bills to give them back.  The bellhop decided he would keep $2.00 tip for himself and make it simple and give them each back $1.00 a piece.  So the men each get back a dollar, meaning they paid 9 dollars a piece for the room.  They paid $27.00 for the room (9x3=27) and the bellhop kept the extra $2.00 for himself to make $29.00.  What happened to the extra dollar?

6th December 2009, 03:18pm
#2
by Jaseaka
South Carolina United States
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 35

wow. that' s a hard one

6th December 2009, 05:53pm
#3
by Jaseaka
South Carolina United States
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 35

ok.

there is no extra dollar!!!

30 was sent to the clerk

the clerk keep 25 (30-5=25)

the bell hop keep 2

and the men keep 3

25+2+3=30

15th December 2009, 01:19pm
#4
by SharkTeeth
Lexington, SC United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 119

Interesting

 

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