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Saleema
10/26/00 at 00:03:16
Assalamoalykum,

Since this board is filled with smart people who are really good at riddles, here's one that I need help on. It's bothering me! My logician teacher assigned us this riddle for the weekend. It's driving me crazy! Its driving me crazy! Did I mention its driving me crazy? :O

Three men go to a hotel and they want to rent a room for the night. The clerk says that there is only one room left and so the three men decide to share the room and split the costs.

The room costs $30. Each man pays $10 and that ads up to $30. The clerk later on finds out that he overcharged the men. The room actually cost only $25. So he tells one of the workers to return the $5 to the men. The worker thinks to himself that since $5 dollars is hard to split between 3 people he decides to keep $2 dollars to himself. The men get only $3 back. So each paid $9 for the room. 9 times 3 is 27. So in total the three men paid only $27. $27 plus $2 adds up to $29. Where is the missing dollar?



Re: Please help!
MuSLiMa
10/26/00 at 07:52:58
Ok i like this puzzle, but i just couldn't figure it out in mah head alone so i had to write out figures on a piece of paper and then it was just too simple :)

so let's assume we have these 3 men, and each had exactly $10 on them:

MAN 1 ($10)    MAN 2 ($10)    MAN 3 ($10)

*All pay $10 each to the clerk so now we have:

MAN 1 ($0)    MAN 2 ($0)    MAN 3 ($0)

*$5 is returned, so let us assume that MAN 1 took possession of that so now we have:

MAN 1 ($0)    MAN 2 ($0)    MAN 3 ($0)

*MAN 1 can't split this money evenly so he pockets $2, so now we have:

MAN 1 ($0+$2)    MAN 2 ($0)    MAN 3 ($0)

*and $3 is split up evenly, including to MAN 1 which is what we missed the first time around so now we have:

MAN 1 ($0+$2+$1)    MAN 2 ($0+$1)    MAN 3 ($0+$1)

*add the money received back by all 3 men and we have the $5 and $25 goes to the clerk.
Re: Please help!
Malika
10/26/00 at 13:31:24
Assalaam Alaikum

Ok the missing dollar is in the 9 dollars.

here is the my take of the breakdown:

the room is $25
each man paid $8.33 for the room
from the original $10 the return is $1.67
each received $1 back and the other $.67 was ripped off by the hotel personnel;)


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