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    Default 3 men hire a hotel room together......

    right so i spent the last hour at work trying to work out this riddle some one gave me.


    3 men are staying over night in a hotel. they go to pay for their room and it comes to $30 total. so they split it three ways and pay $10 each.
    they then get to their room and the manager approches them and says they made a mistake with the pricing and the room only costs $25. then procciding to refund them $5.
    they then each take $1 and give the remaining $2 to the manager for honesty.

    so each of the men have now paid $9 each for the room.
    so 9x3= $27+$2=$29

    wheres the other $1 gone?

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    There is no extra dollar.

    The three men paid $30 for a room.
    The manager realized that the room only
    ought to have cost them $25, so he sent
    the bellhop back with $5 to be returned
    to them.

    Out of the original $30, here's where
    it all went:

    Kept by motel: $25
    Stolen by bellhop: 2
    Returned to men: 3
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    Total: $30
    ===

    Another way of looking at it: The
    three men ended up paying a total of
    $9×3=$27. That's $25 for the room
    plus the $2 stolen by the bellhop.

    The question tries to trick you into
    adding the $2 stolen by the bellhop to
    the total of $27 that the three men end
    up paying, for a total of $29, and then
    wondering why it doesn't add up to the
    original $30. But this is nonsense, as
    the $27 already includes the stolen $2
    ($25 for the room plus the stolen $2
    equals $27).

    The $27 that the men ultimately end up
    paying, plus the $3 that was returned
    to them, adds up to the original $30. The
    $25 that the men were supposed to pay
    for the room, plus the $5 that the bellhop
    was supposed to return to them, equals the
    original $30.

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    ^ thats wrong.
    sorry todd try again.

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    Simple, there is no missing dollar.
    Stop focusing on $30
    Each man paid $9 for the room, $9 x 3 men=$27
    Hotel manager got $25 for the room
    Bell boy got $2 for the tip
    $25+ $2= $27
    each man now has $1. $1 x 3men=$3
    $3 + $27= $30
    All money accounted for.

    used google, like a try orum warrior should

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    lol i used google.

    google fail.

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    $25 for the room
    $3 dollars back
    plus $2 tip
    25+3+2=30

    OR

    $10 each ( 3x $10) = $30
    minus $2 from the manager = $28
    minus the $1 each the get back (total $3) = $25


    basically they payed $25 for the room (really its 25/3= $8.33 or $8 and 1/3 each NOT $9), shared a $2 tip and got a extra $3 each
    so again 25+2+3=30

    ive tried explaining it the best i could

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    no chris your avoiding the question.

    each man paid $10 originally
    they then got back a $1 plus an extra $2

    so they all ended up paying $9 each
    9x3=??? plus the extra $2

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    I fave a feeling this will end with clay looking like even more of a fool.

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    yeah probley

    id already worked it out but after some googleing i over thought it.
    i used math

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