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#80235 - 05/13/05 01:20 PM Hotel puzzle
Tom Cavanaugh Offline
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Registered: 12/06/99
Posts: 2133
Loc: Muskegon, MI
Three men checked into a hotel. The clerk charged them 30 dollars which they paid. Upon checking the rates the clerk realized that he should have charged them 25 dollars. The clerk gave the bellhop 5 dollars and told him to return it to the three men.

The bellhop thought to himself, "how are those three men going to divide 5 dollars. I'll give them three (one for each) and I'll keep two. No one will be the wiser." He did exactly that.

Now the three men paid 27 for the room ( 30 minus the 3 = 27). The bellhop keep 2.

27 + 2 = 29 dollars. Where is the missing dollar?
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#80236 - 05/13/05 01:46 PM Re: Hotel puzzle
DonM Offline
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Registered: 06/25/99
Posts: 16735
Loc: Benton, LA, USA
The final calculation, adding the 27 and the 2 is where it gets confused. The 2 should be subtracted, since the total spent was 27, 25 for the room and 2 for the delivery of the refund.
DonM
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#80237 - 05/13/05 02:27 PM Re: Hotel puzzle
trident Offline
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Registered: 08/22/04
Posts: 1457
Loc: Athens, Greece
If Don's music playing abilities are half of his puzzle solving abilities, we have a very good musician here.
Theodore

PS Not forgetting to throw a little poison in the mix, ....unless he just googles the answers

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#80238 - 05/13/05 03:57 PM Re: Hotel puzzle
DonM Offline
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Registered: 06/25/99
Posts: 16735
Loc: Benton, LA, USA
Googling would take all the fun out of it!
Don
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#80239 - 05/13/05 06:50 PM Re: Hotel puzzle
Sheriff Offline
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Registered: 02/18/05
Posts: 965
Loc: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
Oooooooch, now I stayed a little longer (it's 3:50AM in Germany) but nevertheless I just passed the moment where the next puzzle felt...

Good man, DON!!! You're raising to be the puzzle master...

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Greetings from Frankfurt (Germany),
Sheriff ;-)
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Greetings from Frankfurt (Germany),
Sheriff ;-)

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