Thursday, February 09, 2006

The Missing Dollar !

3 men go into a motel. The man behind the desk said the room is $30, so each man paid $10 and went to the room.

A while later the man behind the desk realised the room was only $25, so he sent the bellboy to the 3 guys' room with $5. On the way the bellboy couldnt figure out how to split $5 evenly between 3 men, so he gave each man a $1 and keep the other $2 for himself.

This meant that the 3 men each paid $9 for the room, which is a total of $27, add the $2 that the bellboy kept = $29.

Where is the other dollar?

3 comments:

jo.ke said...

isn't the room only $28 and not $29?
$25 + $3 the bellboy returned = $28.

So, $28 + $2 the bellboy kept = $30, the original amount the men paid for.

No money missing what...

Anonymous said...

The 2 dollars is just confusing.

We are now calculating the end result i.e. $25 (not $30)

$9 x 3 = $27 which is in excess
$27 -$2 = $25

:)

Anonymous said...

yeh, is just the confused type of presentation.

nothing is missing......