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Question: 10 pts for the coreect answer!!!!!?
Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance!. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room!. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5!. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in!. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends!. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night!. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent!. Where did the other dollar go!?!?!?!?Www@Enter-QA@Com


Answers:
I don't see why you would add the $2 to the $27!. Instead you would subtract $3 from the $30 which equals $27, accounting for the three dollars given to each of the friends!. Then from the $27 you would subtract another $2, to account for the bellhops profits!. This would come to $25, the amount they should have been charged!. The trick in this riddle is when you add the $2 to the $27 when you should subtract!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

The $30 is all accounted for!. The mistake that people make is trying to add that $2 back when actually it should be subtracted!. So basically, they have paid out $27, which $25 went for the room and $2 went to the bellhop!. Then add the $3 back that they were refunded and there's your $30!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

The $2 that the bellhop pocketed is the same $2 that makes the room cost $27 instead of $25!. You can't count it twice!. Then once you have the $27 (either the amount they paid or the actual room charge plus bellhop "tip") add the $3 that was returned!. This gives you the $30!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

$25 for the room

$3 dollars returned

$2 dollars to bellhop

Total $30Www@Enter-QA@Com

awww well actually its
30 - 5 =25

25 + 3 = 28

28 + 2 = 30

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everything is accurate in the story except the math part at the end!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Hey the clerk put it in his pocket while they were not looking!.
I saw him lolWww@Enter-QA@Com

the bellhop!?Www@Enter-QA@Com

the clerk!. you know because its the clerk!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

the clerk has it!?Www@Enter-QA@Com



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