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Answers: Three ladies go to a restaurant for a meal. They receive a bill for ￡30. They each put ￡10 on the table, which the waiter collects and takes to the till. The cashier informs the waiter that the bill should only have been for ￡25 and returns ￡5 to the waiter in ￡1 coins. On the way back to the table the waiter realizes that he cannot divide the coins equally between the ladies. As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he dishonestly decides to put ￡2 in his own pocket and give each of the ladies ￡1.Now that each lady has been given a pound back, each of the ladies has paid ￡9. Three times 9 is 27. The waiter has ￡2 in his pocket. ￡2 plus ￡27 is ￡29. The ladies originally handed over ￡30. Where is the missing pound?

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￡25 pound bill
+￡2 waiter took
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￡27 pound ( which is gone from three ladies purse )
￡3 return to those ladies
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￡30 total..


i hope you will get this now..

give me ten .. not pounds .. points... lol...!!!

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in the till

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Pete and Repeat where sitting on a fence.If Pete fell off who was left.
Pete and Repeat where sitting on a fence.If Pete fell off who was left.
Pete and Repeat where sitting on a fence.If Pete fell off who was left.
Pete and Repeat where sitting on a fence.If Pete fell off who was left.
Pete and Repeat where sitting on a fence.If Pete fell off who was left.
Pete and Repeat where sitting on a fence.If Pete fell off who was left.
Pete and Repeat where sitting on a fence.If Pete fell off who was left.

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i knicked it.

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there is actually no logic answer to this. it is the trick of the brain and it is a simple thinking error. the way you add it up is what is fooling you. this is just a simple trick. ive heard this riddle many a times but in the end i knew where i was going wrong

hope i helped

=]

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the waiters 2 pound is included in their bill for 29 pounds so there is actually 3 pound left over and that was their change

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you took it
now i want it back

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OK, think about it. You say that the women all paid 9 pounds each. That can't be true because when they paid 30 pounds, each of them paid 10￡. However, you cannot take away two pounds from that thirty and have a total of 27, which you say the three women each paid. By giving that 3 quid back to the women, he hasn't effectively given each women a pound back from their original tenner. He's given them one third of a pound back as well (since the amount they give trebles when multiplying by three). So in fact, each woman pays ￡9 and 1/3rd. Therefore, the women pay ￡28 not ￡27. And the waiter has the last two.

Hope that helped

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there is no missing pound the multiplication problem is to confuse you

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$25 / 3 = $8.333

Not $8.00

that change = the other dollar

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The ￡9 that each lady paid includes each one's part of the ￡25 bill as well as their part of the ￡2 that the waiter took. So it works out as follows:
￡9(bill + stolen money) x 3 = ￡27 + the ￡3 change = ￡30
Do not add the ￡2 that the waiter took to the 27 but add the ￡3 that they recieved to it.

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The waiter has it of course all ya'll dumb answerers!!!

Look at it this way... they pay 30 pounds, 10 pounds each. the cashier gives the waiter 5 dollars in return after realizing their mistake! remember they paid 30 pounds and are returned 5 pounds!!! (30-5=25) that sums up to 25 pounds, ok! Still with me? So now out of the five pounds the waiter takes back, he takes 2 pounds for himself, so now the sum is now at 27 pounds (25+2=27), and then she gives the ladies 1 pound each (3 pounds in TOTAL). This sums up to 30 pounds.... hope you didn't get lost...

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Each lady originally paid ￡10, which equals ￡30 in total.

However, because the true bill was ￡25 that means that each of the individual lady’s bill should actually have been ￡8.33 (plus 0.3r of a penny)

Now, the waiter pocketed ￡2.

If you add the true bill of each of the ladies (￡8.33 x 3 = ￡24.99) + the ￡3 that the waiter gave back to the ladies (=￡ 27.99) + the ￡2 that the waiter pocketed, that makes ￡29.99.

Your question should be: what happened to the penny?

And the answer is that it appears that the remaining penny diasapeared into the ether!

What it really means is that the ladies should not have tried to split the bill equally three ways if they didn't want to quibble over the penny.

Since ￡25 does not divide absolutely equally into 3 parts (i.e you're left with .333333r), this ultimately means that the ladies' orders could not have been for an absolutely equal amount - i.e their individual bills were not the same.

Therefore, at least one of the ladies paid for more than she herself ordered and at least one of the ladies paid for less than she herself ordered.

My head's hurting now so I'm going to bed!

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It's a mathematical anomoly written in a way so as to confuse.

There are loads of examples. I have seen an 8cm square cut into four pieces and re-arranged to make a rectangle using the same pieces. The area has grown from 64sq cm to 65 sq cm

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