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08-17-2007, 11:05 PM
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How dumb are you? (Riddle)
So it took me like 10 minutes to figure this one out.
Please read then reply with how long it took you to figure it out. This should help us judge the intelligence, or lack of intelligence in BBV. 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???? 
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#2
08-17-2007, 11:07 PM
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Re: How dumb are you? (Riddle)
that ain't no dollhair in my pocket
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08-17-2007, 11:25 PM
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Re: How dumb are you? (Riddle)
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Even better riddle: You have one bucket filled with 5 gallon of water, and another bucket filled with 2 gallon of water. How many buckets do you have? [/ QUOTE ]7 LDO
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08-17-2007, 11:35 PM
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Re: How dumb are you? (Riddle)
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So it took me like 10 minutes to figure this one out. Please read then reply with how long it took you to figure it out. This should help us judge the intelligence, or lack of intelligence in BBV. 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???? [/ QUOTE ] Thats trippy.
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#7
08-17-2007, 11:42 PM
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Re: How dumb are you? (Riddle)
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[ QUOTE ] So it took me like 10 minutes to figure this one out. Please read then reply with how long it took you to figure it out. This should help us judge the intelligence, or lack of intelligence in BBV. 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???? [/ QUOTE ] Thats trippy. [/ QUOTE ] Hint: In new math you cannot count dollars twice
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08-18-2007, 12:05 AM
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Re: How dumb are you? (Riddle)
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] So it took me like 10 minutes to figure this one out. Please read then reply with how long it took you to figure it out. This should help us judge the intelligence, or lack of intelligence in BBV. 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???? [/ QUOTE ] Thats trippy. [/ QUOTE ] Hint: In new math you cannot count dollars twice [/ QUOTE ] The way i thought of it was that they each got a dollar back so they each paid nine like it said, 27 total. 25 went to the hotel clerk and 2 went to the bellhop.
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