stupid math riddle...

[jay_shark]

The room costs $25 so each person has to pay out 25/3 =8.33. She now pays them an additional $1 so they now have 9.33 .

9.33*3 =28

28+2 =$30 .

Nobody else thought about it this way ?

[PairTheBoard]

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The room costs $25 so each person has to pay out 25/3 =8.33. She now pays them an additional $1 so they now have 9.33 .

9.33*3 =28

28+2 =$30 .

Nobody else thought about it this way ?

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I almost thought of it that way. But I would have had to change the value of pi to 3 to make it work.

PairTheBoard

[samsonite2100]

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The room costs $25 so each person has to pay out 25/3 =8.33. She now pays them an additional $1 so they now have 9.33 .

9.33*3 =28

28+2 =$30 .

Nobody else thought about it this way ?

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Strangely, this explanation makes much more sense to me than the other one.

[andyfox]

3 people check into hotel rooms and pay $200 a piece, so they give the clerk $600 dollars total, the clerk gives the money to the manager who says to give the guests $302 back for whatever reason, so to make it easy the clerk pockets 2 dollars, and gives each of the 3 guests $100 back, meaning they now paid a total of $300 amongst the 3 of them and the clerk pocketed $2. So each paid $100 x 3 =300, the clerk pocketed $2, 300+2 is $302 where did the other $298 go?

[PairTheBoard]

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3 people check into hotel rooms and pay $200 a piece, so they give the clerk $600 dollars total, the clerk gives the money to the manager who says to give the guests $302 back for whatever reason, so to make it easy the clerk pockets 2 dollars, and gives each of the 3 guests $100 back, meaning they now paid a total of $300 amongst the 3 of them and the clerk pocketed $2. So each paid $100 x 3 =300, the clerk pocketed $2, 300+2 is $302 where did the other $298 go?

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I can never remember. Do you put the debits on the left side of the balance sheet and the credits on the right? Or is it the other way around?

PairTheBoard

[tisthefire]

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but they originally paid $30, the clerk was given $5 to give back to them, he pocketed $2 and gave each of the 3 guests $1 dollar back, meaning they each paid $9, 9x3 is 27, plus the $2 the clerk pocketed does not make $30, so from the original $30 what happened to the last dollar?

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The $2 the clerk pocketed is part of the $27 they paid, so you're double counting it when you do 27+2.

The hotel has $25, the clerk has $2 and the 3 people each have $1.

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the $2 that was pocketed was part of the original $30 that was paid right?

But how come it doesn't work when you go back from the original $30 that was initially paid, clerk receiving $5 of the 30 to return, he pockets $2 of the $5, and gives each of the 3 guests $1. So each of the 3 guests now paid $9 for a total of $27 of the original $30, the clerk has $2 of the original $30... i know it works from the hotel having $25 but shouldn't it work this way as well?

[/ QUOTE ]is it a bad sign when you quote something and then ask a question explicitly answered in what you quoated?