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Originally Posted by Cedwards38
I've been pondering this one since I was a child and it was shared with me by my father:
Three men were traveling together. They stop at a hotel for the night. When they inquire about a room, the hotel manager informs them that a room is available and the total charge for the room is $30.00. The men agree and each provides a ten dollar bill to pay for the room they will share. After they pay and go to their room, the hotel manager discovers that he was mistaken and the charge for the room should have been only $26.00 for the one night. The manager calls for his assistant and gives him 4 one dollar bills to take upstairs to give back to the three men. On the way the assistant is confused about how to divide the 4 one dollar bills between three me, so to make things simple he pockets one of the dollars and gives each man one dollar back. Thus each of the three men paid $9.00 for the room.
3 X $9.00= $27.00 plus the dollar that the assistant kept makes $28.00. What happened to the other two dollars?  |
I'm no mathematician, but sholdn't it be:
3 x 10 = 30, -4 = 26, + 1 = 27? Or 30 - 4 = 26, + 1 that the clerk kept = 27? Seems like it's all accounted for.
I probably didn't articulate that too well.