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The Missing Dollar - 3/3/2007 11:39:00 AM

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Three men checked into a cheap hotel where the night clerk charged them $30 for the night. Each man contributed $10.

Later. when the manager was reviewing the records, he realized that the cost of the room should have only been $25, so he grabbed a clerk, gave him $5 in singles, and told him to return the money to the men.

The clerk, realizing that three men were going to have trouble evenly dividing up 5 singles between them, decided to take $2, and gave the men the remaining $3 (he was doing them a favor, you understand.

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Now, here's the question:

Each man paid $10 originally, and got back a dollar, so in reality, actually paid $9 each. 3 x 9 = $27.

The clerk kept $2.

$27 + $2 = $29

Where did the other $1 go?

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RE: The Missing Dollar - 3/3/2007 11:39:58 AM

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I took it to buy me some marshmallow peeps

don't make me have to think like that, it hurts..

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RE: The Missing Dollar - 3/3/2007 11:58:40 AM

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It vanished into a hole in the logic when you multiplied by three.

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RE: The Missing Dollar - 3/3/2007 12:06:39 PM

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Original money - $30
Room cost - $25
Clerk - $2
Refund - $3

Room cost + clerk + refund = original money
$25 + $2 + $3 = $30

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Or, to put it another way:

Room cost + Clerk's "tip" = Actual cost
$25 + $2 = $27 (9x3)

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RE: The Missing Dollar - 3/3/2007 12:12:10 PM

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I beat the clerk up and took the dollar for a bottle fo Mountain Dew...cam back for the rest later, I was really thirsty

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RE: The Missing Dollar - 3/3/2007 12:23:09 PM

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these pretzels are making me thirsty! oh, not the association thread...

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RE: The Missing Dollar - 3/3/2007 12:24:22 PM

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The trouble is that you are double counting the $2 in the original question and not counting the three.

The men paid $27.00 for the room, you do not ADD $2 to that for the answer, as it is STILL part of what was paid. $25 was COLLECTED for the room, and the other $2 went to the clerk. (so, $27 MINUS $2 equals $25 ... but since it has already been factored, we leave it alone.)

So, they have PAID $27 ($25 to the manager, $2 to the cleark), and now each have $1 in their pockets (total of $3.)

They PAID $27, plus the $3 they now have left, and there never was amissing dollar.

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RE: The Missing Dollar - 3/3/2007 12:27:58 PM

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two men actually paid 8.33 one paid 8.34 the fact the clerk stole 2 dollars is irrelevant

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