Missing Dollar Riddle

Riddleman · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 598

Heres one that'll keep you thinking:

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????

Guest · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 4:41 am Post subject:

the prob with this is that they did not pay 9$ and the mishap happens with the addition and the multiplication. they in fact payed around 7 and 1/3 dollars. this is because 25 / 3. now you add the 2 bucks to each persons bill and times that by 3, you get 30.

Guest · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:43 pm Post subject:

There is no missing dollar

Riddleman · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 598

Tsukiko · Guest

prettykitty · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:47 pm Post subject: check this out

okay a guy walks into a bar and the bar tender pulls out a gun and the guy says thank you . why? Exclamation

prettykitty · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:48 pm Post subject: Re: check this out

prettykitty · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:49 pm Post subject: Re: check this out

Guest · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:19 am Post subject:

cuase the dude had hiccups

Riddleman · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 598

ObscureBeauty · Guest

This one isn't that hard.

25 dollars for the room.
2 dollars he pockets
_____
27 dollars.
+ the 3 dollars.

Equals 30.00

LilGrim1991 · Guest

Are you people serious?I'm 13 years old and I can figure that out easily!

2 dollars from the 27 ARE the bellhop's!Theres no missing dollar,the 3 friends HAVE the other 3 dollars.The bellhop just made a miscalculation,charging them 2 extra dollars,forgetting he had already charged for the 2...The guys REALLY had to pay 28 Dollars!

renee146blah · Guest

umm... no.................... the guys did NOT have to pay 28 dollars...
they had to pay $9 each... =$27
25 for the room...
2 for the sleazy little cheat...
the other three dollars are irrelevant... they're back where they started