HELP ME ASAP: impossible riddle

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three guys are staying at a hotel which costs 30 dollars. they each pay ten dollars and go up to the room. after they leave, the guy at the counter realized he overcharged, the room is only 25$. the guy sends a worker up with five one-dollar bills to give to the men. since 5$ cant be split evenly to 3 men, he gives one dollar back to each of them, and keeps the last two for himself. if each man only ended up paying nine dollars (9 x 3= 27) and the worker has the other 2$ (27+2=29), how can that possibly add up to thirty? where did that dollar get lost? its supposed to add up to 30.....help me!!

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three guys are staying at a hotel which costs 30 dollars. they each pay ten dollars and go up to the room. after they leave, the guy at the counter realized he overcharged, the room is only 25$. the guy sends a worker up with five one-dollar bills to give to the men. since 5$ cant be split evenly to 3 men, he gives one dollar back to each of them, and keeps the last two for himself. if each man only ended up paying nine dollars (9 x 3= 27) and the worker has the other 2$ (27+2=29), how can that possibly add up to thirty? where did that dollar get lost? its supposed to add up to 30.....help me!!

It's not supposed to add up to $30. Each man paid $9, which adds up to $27. The hotel got $25 and the worker got $2, which adds up to the same amount.

It's the same result as if each man had paid $9 originally, giving the hotel $27, and the worker had stolen $2.

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how does it not add up to 30 in the end if they paid 30 in the first place?

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The men initially paid $10 ea; $30.

The refund was $5.00, which was split $2 to the bellhop, $1 ea to the 3 men; $5.00.

The hotel got $25, the bellhop got $2, each of the 3 men got back $1 apiece (making the cost of the room $9.00 ea - $27.00); the original $30.00 is accounted for.

Code:

Hotel:     $25.00

Bellhop:     2.00

Customer 1:  1.00

Customer 2:  1.00

Customer 3:  1.00

            _____

Total:     $30.00

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In total agreement even though you do not need it timberlandko. My own brother tried pulling that one on me about 6 years ago. I really had to think about it because it does seem deceiving. I like the way you spelled the answer out so it makes total sense.

Here are the links to the same riddle.

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=64221&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

or

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2655427#2655427

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your looking at it like 9x3=27 +2 =29
look at it like 9x3=27 -2=25
because she TOOK $2

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same riddle.....
http://able2know.org/topic/136058-1#post-3750676

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