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3 men go into a Hotel.

 
Thu Jan 17, 2013 11:47 pm  by tartle

3 men go into a Hotel.
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 realized the room was only $25, so he sent the bellboy to the 3 guy's room with $5.
On the way the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split $5 evenly between 3 men, so he gave each man a $1 and kept 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 $?
 
   
Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:00 am  by hiya

the men paid $9 each for a total of $27; the hotel got $25; the bell boy got $2
 
   
Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:09 pm  by asdfghjklmn

obvious fallacy . you shouldn't add 2 to 27 , you must subtract 2 from 27 to get 25 $ ( the money in the hotel )
 
   
Sat Jan 18, 2014 11:21 pm  by dave08

3 people x 10 = 30 , but
3 people x 9 = 27 only
 
   
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