Can You Answer This? Where did the Dollar Go?

[aj58]

Three person go into a hotel and a room for all three of them costs $25 a night.

They only need to stay for one night.

They don?t want to split $25 into 3, so they each pay $10 and go up to their room.

The hotel owner doesn?t want to keep their $5 change, so he sends a bellboy up to their room to give it to them.

The bellboy doesn?t want to split $5 into 3, so he keeps $2 and gives each of them $1.

Now each of them, after getting their change paid $9.00. So, $9 x 3 is= $27, + the bell boy's $2 is = $29.

Where is the last dollar?

 

[bret]

i heard this one before.. but i wont ruin it

 

[Mrvile]

WTF wait...

They each paid 10 dollars to make the 30 dollars, not 9. I can't figure it out but I think it has something to do with that.

 

[shilala]

The last dollar is out looking for someone who can do proper math.

 

[cavemanmoron]

:wine:

 

[95SS]

Not this sh!t again!!

 

[DAGTA]

They each paid $9. 3 X 9 = $27. The hotel kept $25. The bellhop kept $2. $25 + $2 = $27.

There is no missing dollar, just 'misleading' English.

 

[TuxDave]

Money Paid = $27 ($9*3)
Money in Pocket = $2 (bellboy) + $25 (hotel owner)

No missing dollar

 

[gw186]

Originally posted by: 95SS
Not this sh!t again!!

 

[TheChort]

Originally posted by: DAGTA
They each paid $9. 3 X 9 = $27. The hotel kept $25. The bellhop kept $2. $25 + $2 = $27.

There is no missing dollar, just 'misleading' English.

 

[Analog]

This is also the reason accounts do NOT mix the income and expenditure.
The answer is in the way the question is worded. You cannot add what one person HAS to what someone else has PAID and come up with any kind of a meaningful number, you have to subtract. Each man has paid $9.

The bellhop has $2.
Men paid: $9 x 3 = $27
$27 - $2 = $25 (that the hotel clerk has)

To look at it from the standpoint of the original $30. Each man has $1.
The bellhop has $2.
The hotel clerk has $25.
Total $1 x 3 = $3
2+25+30

 

[stnicralisk]

The 27 dollars they paid includes the bellboys 2 dollars already. It is the three dollars that were given back to them that isnt being included. The trick isnt where the dollar went at all but the statement at the end is trying to mislead you.

 

[MustangSVT]

I spent it on a cheap hooker and slept on streets.

 

[hevnsnt]

Three people

learn english

 

[mobobuff]

You didn't even tell it right. You butchered an already butchered question.

Like people have already said, the dollar didn't go anywhere, the mathematical procedures in the question are ordered incorrectly.

 

[her209]

Search next time.

 

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: DAGTA
They each paid $9. 3 X 9 = $27. The hotel kept $25. The bellhop kept $2. $25 + $2 = $27.

There is no missing dollar, just 'misleading' English.

 

[HonkeyDonk]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
You didn't even tell it right. You butchered an already butchered question.

Like people have already said, the dollar didn't go anywhere, the mathematical procedures in the question are ordered incorrectly.

Haha...awesome post.

Yeah his english is horrible and I vote that he be banned.

He must be new to the Internet.

 

[Brutuskend]

The original was done by Einstein, or so I've been told.

It is a weird little math problem to be sure.

Intellectually, you can KNOW where the dollar went, but math lets you down on this one.

 

[aj58]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
The original was done by Einstein, or so I've been told.

It is a weird little math problem to be sure.

Intellectually, you can KNOW where the dollar went, but math lets you down on this one.

ROFL!!! You're absolutely right!