Here is a riddle that my high school math teacher told us that boggled my mind for a while.
There were 3 business men who split the cost of a $30 hotel room. The manager realized that he had overcharged the 3 men by $5. So he gave the bell boy five dollars and told him to take it to the three men. On the way to the room the bell boy thought, mmmm, 5 dollars can't be split evenly among three men, so he pocketed $2 and returned to the men $3, or a dollar to each man. So each man thought he had payed $9 each instead of $10, for a total of $27. The bell boy kept $2 dollars, which added to the $27 that the men paid totals $29. Where is the missing dollar? ($30 was paid originally)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Riddle me a Riddle
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No comments yet? At almost a week later. Well I will admit that I pondered over this for a while. Then I quit. I can barely keep up with my 2 kids let alone solve a riddle.
got it riddler. The men in reality paid a total of $25 for the room. the belhop gave them $3 back for a total of $28 and the bellhop kept $2, for a total of $30.
When I first read it, I was tricked by the $9 each guest and adding in the $2 to get $29. I had to write it down on a piece of paper to see it all come together. nice one.
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