Please Help me answer this????

[G95champ]

Ok 3 guys go into a hotel. They buy a room that costs 30.00 dollars. The three men go up to the room and set down. A few minutes later the clerk realizes he overcharged the men. The room only should cost 25.00. So the clerk sends the bell hop to the room with 5 ones in change. The bell hop don't know how to split the money. So he gives each man a dollar and he keeps 2. So the question is what happend to the other dollar?

 

Each man paid 10.00 = 30.00

 

The Bell Hop gives each man back 1.00

 

So each man actully only paid 9.00

 

9 x 3 = 27.00

 

The Bell Hop kept 2

 

27 + 2 is only 29.00

 

So where did the other dollar go?

 

A friend of mine asked me this the other day and its been killing me.

[diamondick]

If the dude is stealing dont add

 

subtract!!!!

 

Is that it?

[Patrick]

Is it with the man?

[kicker]

Tax????

 

Or it's a trick question and I think diamondick is right.

[G95champ]

Keep going I'll fill you all in later.

[Red J]

Total paid out by men 30

 

refunded to men -3

 

net paid out by men 27 , 27/3= 9 per man

 

bell hop money -2

 

net to hotel 25

 

So it is 30-3=27-2=25

 

or

 

The billed amount is 25 plus the 2 for the bell hop =27. This is the amount the guys paid out. 9x3=27, now add the 3 refunded to the guys, 3+27=30.

 

In your post you said the bell hop kept 2 and then you added it to the 27 which was the result of 30-3. You should subtract the 2 because you started the problem from 30. Get it?

[G95champ]

No your wrong as well

 

The answer is when they bill was only 25.00 the men never paid 10.00 each. They only paid 8.33 each. Thus 8.33 x 3 is 27.99999999999. So the bell hop kept 2 and that makes 28. I worked and worked on that thing. The logic changes thus the math don't add up.

[Red J]

G95- Take another look.

 

25 in the register plus 3 given as refund plus two taken by the bellhop equals 30.

 

25+2+3=30

 

BTW 8.33 X 3 = 24.99

[G95champ]

8x3 is 24.99 your right

 

So they each paid 8 not 10.

 

When the bell hop gives them each back a dollar that makes 9.33

 

9.33 x 3 is 27.99

 

Then the bell hop kept the other 2.

 

When you look at it as a pure subtract problem it all fits. The trick comes in when you say they paid 10 (which they never did) Thus when they got a dollar back they only paid 9. Then you follow the line of logic that 9 x 3 is 27. Then if the bell hop only kept 2 where is the missing dollar.

 

What your saying is right but the trick is making them x what they paid by 3.

[Red J]

The trick is that it is a subtraction problem.

 

30 paid out. 10 x 3

 

-3 refunded now its 9x3

 

-2 stolen

 

25 paid in register.