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Galactic
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Quick little math riddle
« on: Feb 17th, 2003, 7:32am » |
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Ok here goes:
3 guys go to a hotel. They get 1 room for the 3 of them. The total comes out to 30 dollars.
So each man pays 10 dollars. ($30)
Then the hostess tells them there is a special discount on that day, so they get 5 dollars back. ($30 - $5 = $25)
So they decide to each take a dollar and leave 2 dollars for the cleaning maid as a tip. ($5 - $3 - $2 = 0)
Now seeing as how the each originally paid 10 dollars and they each got 1 dollar back, logically each one of them paid 9 dollars.
Now it's kind of impossible. 9 x 3 = 27, yet they only left 2 dollars as tip... 27 + 2 = 29.
Any ideas on how they did this?
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wowbagger
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Re: Quick little math riddle
« Reply #1 on: Feb 17th, 2003, 8:17am » |
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on Feb 17th, 2003, 7:32am, Galactic wrote:| Any ideas on how they did this? |
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Well, at least I have an idea of how to use the search feature.
Please post to the existing thread if anybody has anything meaningful to add.
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benmandude
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Re: Quick little math riddle
« Reply #2 on: Mar 24th, 2003, 6:02pm » |
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each guy pays 10 bucks = 30
5 dollar discount = 25
3 bucks between the guys = 28
2 bucks for maid = 30
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