beingforitself
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[yes, i understand that you have heard this before]
[prize goes to person who can most succinctly (and accurately) answer]
Three women check into a hotel. The desk attendant quotes them a price of 10 dollars each, or 30 dollars total, for the night. They duly pay the money and proceed to their room.
Later, however, the attendant realizes that the price should be 25 dollars, and not 30. She hands 5 dollars to the bellboy, who walks up the stairs. The bellboy, a rather dubious fellow of questionable scruples, decides while walking that he will pocket 2 dollars for himself and give the three ladies only 3 dollars back (he also figures that this will save them the impossible task of dividing 5 dollars in 3).
This is the resulting situation:
After the bellboy gives them back 3 dollars, the three women have now paid the hotel 30 - 3 = 27 dollars for the night. The bellboy, however, only has 5 - 3 = 2 dollars in his pocket. 27 + 2 = 29. Where is the missing dollar the women paid to the hotel?
[prize goes to person who can most succinctly (and accurately) answer]
Three women check into a hotel. The desk attendant quotes them a price of 10 dollars each, or 30 dollars total, for the night. They duly pay the money and proceed to their room.
Later, however, the attendant realizes that the price should be 25 dollars, and not 30. She hands 5 dollars to the bellboy, who walks up the stairs. The bellboy, a rather dubious fellow of questionable scruples, decides while walking that he will pocket 2 dollars for himself and give the three ladies only 3 dollars back (he also figures that this will save them the impossible task of dividing 5 dollars in 3).
This is the resulting situation:
After the bellboy gives them back 3 dollars, the three women have now paid the hotel 30 - 3 = 27 dollars for the night. The bellboy, however, only has 5 - 3 = 2 dollars in his pocket. 27 + 2 = 29. Where is the missing dollar the women paid to the hotel?
