Money - USD 29 - Solution
Please wait before you get some legal advice to sue the bellboy, let’s do some thinking first … This could be a way to earn some easy money fast!
Each person paid $9, totalling $27. The manager has $25 and the bellboy $2.
The bellboy’s $2 should be added to the manager’s $25 or subtracted from
the tenants’ $27, not added to the tenants’ $27.
- $29 to $ 31 -
John Ferguson e-mailed me and told me there is a follow-up to the $29 “problem”…
‘Later on, two salesmen come in and get a room. They pay the manager $30 and go to their room. The manager — this just isn’t his day — again discovers that the rate is $25, so he gives the bellboy $5 and tells him to return it to the salesmen. The bellboy again reasons that he cannot split $5 evenly (as the manager gave him 5 one-dollar bills), so he pockets $3 and gives the salesmen back 1 each.
Each salesman initially paid $15 and received $1 back. Thus $14 times the two salesman equals $28, plus the $3 that the bellboy kept totals $31.
There’s the missing dollar :-)’
i figured out the true answer you see i will show you thru -’s
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right then the bell boy takes back 5 dollars
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so then the bell boy points out the obgvious so they give him two and they keep three
Now they each pay 9. NOW THESE IS WHERE THEY MESS UP!!!! they do 9*3=27+2=29
Now because they gave two that is the 9*3 so why do they add two who knows who started that but when you think about your adding some thing that you shouldn’t you add the three so in the end it =’s this
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the guys savings —
That is the true answer.
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these guys can be dumb
i had the first comment *chuckle*
If we say that each person got a dollar back from the bellboy, then it means that each person paid $9 or we can say that all three of them paid $27 in total and not $30. So the amount, which the bellboy took was from the $27 and not $30. So those $2 should not be added to $27.