question

[raider red 2000]

Can you solve this?


Three men go to a conference and the bill for the hotel is $25 dollars. Each man puts in $10 a piece($30 total). The manager gives the bellhop the change of $5. The bellhop tries to spit the change equally and comes up with keeping $2 and giving all three men $1 a piece.

Now.

All three men have paid $9 dollars each for a total of ($27). The bellhop still has $2. Total is $29 dollars.

Where is the extra dollar?

[BHKrystal06]

The IRS took it....

lol

[rockdale80]

each man actually paid 28 between them...one of the dollars was divided into the price of the hotel. they each paid 8.33 cents for the room. and received a dollar back. meaning each man paid 9.33 dollars each. For a total of 28 dollars between them. leaving a balance of 2 bucks.

[pirate44]

ea. guy paid one third of the $25 and one third of the $2 tip. $8.33 (25/3) and then .67 ($2/3) so in reality they each paid $9. but then they got back 1 so it equal $10 per person.