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3 friends rent a hotel room for $30. Each paid $10. After they leave, the receptionist realizes that the room was only $25. She sends the bellboy to the room with $5. The bellboy knows he can't split $5 by 3, so he gives each friend $1, and keeps the $2. If each friend paid $9 for the room, and the bellboy keeps $2, 9+9+9+2=29. Where did the other dollar go?
 
I'm not sure what I'm missing here, but all $30.00 is accounted for: $25.00 for the room, $3.00 returned to the 3 guys, and $2.00 the bellhop kept. I don't see an extra dollar. :shrug01:
 
I'm not sure what I'm missing here, but all $30.00 is accounted for: $25.00 for the room, $3.00 returned to the 3 guys, and $2.00 the bellhop kept. I don't see an extra dollar.
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same here
 
Breakdown:
Each person gives $10 toward the $30 bill. Upon getting the return of $1 each ($3 divided equally, from the refunded $5), that leaves each man having paid $9. Since 9+9+9=27, and the bellboy has $2, the "math" seems to indicate a deficit from the original sum because $27 +$2 = $29; and the original payment was $30

(Of course, the real math is that $9 + $9 + $9 = $27....and the room price is $25. That leaves an overpayment of $2, which the bellboy kept)
 
If the room was $25.00, then each of the 3 men did not pay $9.00. They paid (rounded off) $8.33 each. That leaves $5.01. They got $3.00 back and the bellboy got $2.00. There's a penny missing! LOL :)
 
hhmoore said:
Breakdown:
Each person gives $10 toward the $30 bill. Upon getting the return of $1 each ($3 divided equally, from the refunded $5), that leaves each man having paid $9. Since 9+9+9=27, and the bellboy has $2, the "math" seems to indicate a deficit from the original sum because $27 +$2 = $29; and the original payment was $30

(Of course, the real math is that $9 + $9 + $9 = $27....and the room price is $25. That leaves an overpayment of $2, which the bellboy kept)
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I drove my algebra class crazy with that one today and was wondering if it would do the same here..... guess not. :(
 
garweft said:
I drove my algebra class crazy with that one today and was wondering if it would do the same here..... guess not. :(
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It did....I absolutely approached it the way you set it up, and was laughing at my own frustration. I understood that the money was all accounted for, but focusing on the $30 and the individual payments made the numbers not work.
I plan on hitting a few friends with that when I get a chance, lol
 
LauraB said:
If the room was $25.00, then each of the 3 men did not pay $9.00. They paid (rounded off) $8.33 each. That leaves $5.01. They got $3.00 back and the bellboy got $2.00. There's a penny missing! LOL :)
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The penny isn't missing, but haphazard rounding off left it misshapen and unrecognized. It's there, it just doesn't look like a penny anymore.
 
LOL ... and here I thought it looked like that cause somebdoy put it on train tracks to see what would happen.
 
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