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Tragically_l33t Posted 21 years ago
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Riddle 9 - last one i promise

0 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???? 0-
  

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0 Tragically sorry... 02br 05000 040pid102151

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0 Tragically sorry... 02br
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0in this question there is a trick in words.if the three friends have paid 9$ each, it makes 27$ in total.25$ is given to the clerk and the bellhopp pockets 2$.it makes 29$ in total which is the amount given by the three friends.02br
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00and in your question if you give the friends 1$ each the amount given becomes 27 not 30$. 25$ for the room 2$ pocketed by the bellhop.(
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0clerk says 30. Corrects his mistake and says 25. Bellhop is to return the money but only gives back two. the three friends have one donnar each.02br
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00mistake02br
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0030-25=502br
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00bellhop02br
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0025+2=2702br
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00Three friends02br
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001+1+1+27=3002br
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0there is no doller left02br
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00I am sure about it02br
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00so I am right 0-
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0 There had been a discussion on this topic earlier. As Anne had said please refer to her referred link. It has the solution to this puzzle!!! 0-

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