Maths problem?!


Question: three men go to a hotel and each pay £10 each for a room the room cost £25 the manager ask the porter to take the men there change on the way the porter thinks to himself that three into five wont go so he gives each man £1 and keeps £2 for himself
so each man has paid £9 each so
3 times 9 =27 + 2 witch the porter kept=29 so where is the outher pound


Answers: three men go to a hotel and each pay £10 each for a room the room cost £25 the manager ask the porter to take the men there change on the way the porter thinks to himself that three into five wont go so he gives each man £1 and keeps £2 for himself
so each man has paid £9 each so
3 times 9 =27 + 2 witch the porter kept=29 so where is the outher pound

There in no extra dollar (or pound by your telling).

Each man paid 10 initially. This comes to 30.
The manager sent 5 back. The bellhop (or porter in your telling) doesn't know how to split 5 three ways, so he keeps two for himself and gives one back to each man.

25 for the room + 3 given back + 2 for the bellhop/porter =30

This is a very old joke in America. It is all about misdiretion. There in no extra dollar, all are accounted for, but the joke is worded in such a way as to confuse the recipient, causing many people to work for a very long time trying to track down the supposed lost dollar/pound.

Not this old chestnut again!!?


I'll let everyone else fill you in

in his pants!

aaa i hate word problems haha =]

each man paid 10 but the room was 25, 30-25=5 so 3+2=5 and 5+25=30

I say go to a Holiday Inn. They give you a nice bill showing all your drinks, food and adult movies.

Although its still not obvious what you've paid for because quite frankly the food is awful.

Yes the old ones are the best.i will let other yahoo people answer it.

how would there be another pound if this is money wtf

The room only cost 25

Trick question by framing the math the wrong way. The right way is, they paid 27 pounds, but the room only cost 25 pounds. Where are the other 2 pounds? The porter kept them.

I asked this one about 5 months ago. Here are the answers:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

Each man had 10$ and they paid 10 each so they were left with 0. They each recieved one $ back. The porter had two.
2$ + 1$ + 1$ + 1$ makes 5. That 5 $ plus what the room actually cost is 30$. It is perfectly fine.
Another way to show it is:
The 10 dollars originally paid add up to 30.
The room cost 25.
That leaves five.
The porter took two.
Each if the three other men took 1$ adding up to 3$.
3$ + 2$+ 25= 30$

The men paid 30 pounds between them, but received 1 pound back each which means they only paid 27 pounds.
The room only cost 25 pounds so they were robbed of 2 pounds which the porter took.
Therefore the sum should read: 3 times 9 = 27 MINUS 2 which the porter kept.
Clever question, though. Took a fair bit of thought to work it out, especially at this time of night!

This "joke" is mean to be worded in such a fashion to cause confusion. But it is not meant to be further confused by terrible grammar and incorrect "there/they're/their" usage.

room cost = £25.
3 people gave to the manager = £30.
he kept £2 and reminder £3 pound returned to the 3 people.
£2+£3 = £5
(+)
room cost = £25
total = £30.

3x10=30 -2 =28 do the math right



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