Riddle

[vinny10]

3 men walk into the reception of a hotel and want 1 room

They find out the rooms are £30 and pay £10 each

After leaving reception the receptionist realises the rooms are only £25 and sends the waiter up with the £5 change

On the way up the waiter can't figer out how to split £5 by 3 so he gives each man £1 and keeps £2 for himself.

NOW,each of them has paid £9 for the room which adds up to £27

And the waiter kept£2 which adds up to £29

WHERE DID THE OTHER £1 GO?????????????????

[Gadzoox]

I took it!

[Valkrie Of Light]

It didnt go anywhere, all the money is accounted for.

[ssjtrunks13]

The person at the front has it.

[Sword 4 Hire]

First of all what are three guys doing staying in one room....:peoples:

[Valkrie Of Light]

They didnt have the money for three rooms?

[kupoartist]

grr... someone was saying this one at school about half a year ago, and I seem to remember that there is actually no solution :laugh: ... perhaps its supposed to clear your mind of all conscious thought (presumably by killing youself hitting your head against the wall :happy: )

[ssjtrunks13]

Originally posted by Sword 4 Hire

First of all what are three guys doing staying in one room....:peoples:

Good question!

[Iluvatar]

Hmm....

Mmm....

Eer....

Well one answer is = It's cuz of the Euro, which (probably) cuts a small amount out of the money.

Then there is tax... but do you pay tax if you pay with Euros?

Heres another one.

3 guys - 10 bucks each.
5 dollars back - 3 so they all payed ... 9
9 times 3 is 27.
2 Dollars left. 1 was kept by the (greedy) waiter.
So...
Think about it - if tax is .5 per dollar, that means it takes 25 dollars to equal 1 dollar of tax, which compensates for the lost buck.

But then agan - If you're paying with Euros, is there the .5 tax?

[dan da man]

Originally posted by vinny10


NOW,each of them has paid £9 for the room which adds up to £27

And the waiter kept£2 which adds up to £29



that bit is not true, because the waiter has £2 and the other guys have £3 which is £5 and the other 25 has been paid in b4! am i right?

[Sword 4 Hire]

Are you going to give us the answer any time soon vinny cause I'm interested in the solution...

[Daedaelus]

I remember this riddle, and I'm pretty sure that the answer is that its all balanced out, but I can't remember the mathematical solution.

[David]

Just a guess but, they gave the waitier a tip?

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To be forgotten is worse than death...

[vinny10]

Why do you think I told yeah? I have no idea myself. Our Maths teacher told us it and if we got the right answer we'd get no homework that night. But no one knew.

Yeah all have no idea either, do yeah? And no Dan I don't think that's the right answer.

I HAVE SERIOUSLY HURT MYSELF FROM BANGING MY HEAD OFF THE WALL, THINKING OF THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad: :frust: :roll:

[Suzuki_Fanboy]

If you think about it, it works out. All the money is accounted for, it's just the stupid problem that's wrong. Logically, all the money is where it should be.

[vinny10]

How do you mean accounted for? Who has the extra £1, someone has to have it?:ghost:

[dan da man]

^
^
read my post again and there in no pound left!
all £30 has been spent!

[Frozen]

The waiter should have actually given them complete the 5 £ and let the 3 guys divide them themselves, 2 of the guys would get 2 £ and one of them only 1 £.

A guy) -2 + 10 = 8
B guy) -2 + 10 = 8
C guy) -1 + 10 = 9

8+8+9= 25


Now, if the waiter keeps 2:

A) -1 + 10 = 9
B) -1 + 10 = 9
C) -1 + 10 = 9

9+9+9= 27 +2 = 29


5/4 = 1 1/4



LMAO, I could not solve it :laugh:

[dan da man]

it is a just a trick question!
the 9+9+9= 27 +2 = 29 bit is fake its simple!

1 person = has paid £10
2 person = has paid £10
3 person = has paid £10


waiter has £5 change gives them £1 each thats £3 to them all and he keeps £2 for himself which is £30.
^
(dont forget the room bill was £25)

[Deathwatchz]

the answer is, the original room bill was 30, but it got cut down to 25 pounds. that means that each person didnt pay exactly 9 dollars. if you calculate it, each person payed 8.33 pounds to the room, and two went to the waiter. (8.33x3) + 2 = (25) + 2 = 27. the remaining three pounds, which were returned to the people, couldn't be divided equally because the waiter didn't have change.

person 1: paid 8 for the room, recieved 1 pound back (9)
person 2: paid 8 for the room, recieved 1 pound back (9)
person 3: paid 9 for the room, recieved 1 pound back (10)
waiter : stole 2 bucks (2)

9+9+10+2=30 the other pound was in the hotel safe, cuz person 3 got screwed over and had to pay 1 pound more than his friends.

the 10-1=9
10-1=9
10-1=9
equation is misleading, since it makes you think that they had paid 9 pounds each. it is actually 30-3 (27) then 27-2 (25) the cost of the room. you think that you are supposed to ADD the two pounds the waiter took, rather than subtracting it, which you should have done.

[Redpyramidhead]

No no no...it's too late (or early) for these types of math problems.
There's reasons I took care of all my math credits before my senior year back in high school so i could fit that creative writing class in and one of them was so I would completely forget how to concentrate on math problems by now.:laugh: Course it was fun dating that MIT student for about a year..."Why don't you see what's so exciting about these monstrosities we call problem sets?" she probably wanted to say on more than one occasion.:roll:

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