help me analyze this puzzle

[pinoy]

3 guys checked out of the motel and gave $10 each to the cashier. the cashier then decided to give them a discount and called the bell boy telling him to give the $5 back. not knowing how to divide the 5 bux to the 3, he then decided to give $1 for each person and keep the $2 left. where did missing $1 go?

10-1=9
10-1=9
10-1=9
_______
27 + 2 = 29

any answer? i don't know the answer also, that's why i posted it!

 

[ohtwell]

There's an answer to that riddle in this thread. You may have to search for it in the thread but it's in there.


: ) Amanda

 

[Novgrod]

3 guys checked out of the motel and gave $10 each to the cashier. the cashier then decided to give them a discount and called the bell boy telling him to give the $5 back. not knowing how to divide the 5 bux to the 3, he then decided to give $1 for each person and keep the $2 left. where did missing $1 go?

There is no missing $1.

The Cashier has $30; he gives $5 back. Then he has $25.

The bell boy gives out $3, or $1 + $1 + $1.

He keeps $2. Now by my calculation, 3 + 2 + 25 = 30

What you're doing is adding the amount that the people paid plus the amount the bellboy kept.

 

[broon]

You are approaching this wrong with your math. Just look at it as $25 for the room. Each give $10. 3x$10=$30-$5 (change)=$25. Each take $1 and give $2 tip.

So...$30 - $25 = $5 - $3 - $2=0

 

[EvanGeliSt]

Lol u guys are cracking me up

 

[dfi]

The best is when someone tells me this "puzzle", and then proceeds to explain that this is the reason math is "wrong".

dfi

 

[spp]

i think about it this way.... maybe this is easier ..

since each person pay 9 bucks equivalently, their total is 27 dollars, and that should include the 2 bucks bell boy took (so 27-2=25 is the amount that cashier actually took)

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: dfi
The best is when someone tells me this "puzzle", and then proceeds to explain that this is the reason math is "wrong".

dfi

lol

 

[Calundronius]

Originally posted by: dfi
The best is when someone tells me this "puzzle", and then proceeds to explain that this is the reason math is "wrong".

dfi

Let me get this straight...people are trying to convince you that "math" is wrong? As in, it dosen't work? The whole concept? That's even worse than the flat-earth people.

 

[Evadman]

Prove to me that it is not flat.

(harder than you think)

 

[StinkyMeat]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Prove to me that it is not flat.

(harder than you think)

Would it have anything to do with laser beams being slightly curved?

 

[Brutuskend]

AHH the old Einstein number puzzle.

I'll give YOU the answer if you give ME the 1,000,000 that Einstein said HE would give the person that figured it out!!

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Prove to me that it is not flat.

(harder than you think)

Bugs Bunny already did it for me in the cartoon where he threw a baseball in one direction and it arrived back from the opposite direction -- if the Earth wasn't round the baseball would have sailed off the edge into space. It wasn't a boomerang half-circular path because the baseball had travel stickers from nations all around the globe. QED.

 

[yakko]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Prove to me that it is not flat.

(harder than you think)

Prove to me that the Earth exists.