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sperry · 2005-11-28, 07:01 PM

Three men on a business trip get screwed out of their hotel reservations, so they're forced to try to find rooms at a local inn.

The only inn in town with a vacancy has only a single room, so the men decide to share it.

The room costs $25 for the night. Unfortunately none of the men have bills smaller than $10's, and the innkeeper doesn't have any change. So each of the men pays $10, and the innkeeper tells them, he'll send the bell-hop up to the room with change as soon as he's got it.

An hour later the bell-hop arrives at the room with five $1 bills. To avoid having to split up the five bucks among three people, the men each take a dollar, and let the bell-hop keep the remaining two bucks as a tip.

So, if each of the men has now spent $9, plus the $2 tip, that's only $29... where's the missing dollar from the original $30?

2005-11-28, 07:01 PM	#1
sperry The Doink Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 20,335 Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata Class: PDX/TT-6 The way out is through	Another brain workout... Three men on a business trip get screwed out of their hotel reservations, so they're forced to try to find rooms at a local inn. The only inn in town with a vacancy has only a single room, so the men decide to share it. The room costs $25 for the night. Unfortunately none of the men have bills smaller than $10's, and the innkeeper doesn't have any change. So each of the men pays $10, and the innkeeper tells them, he'll send the bell-hop up to the room with change as soon as he's got it. An hour later the bell-hop arrives at the room with five $1 bills. To avoid having to split up the five bucks among three people, the men each take a dollar, and let the bell-hop keep the remaining two bucks as a tip. So, if each of the men has now spent $9, plus the $2 tip, that's only $29... where's the missing dollar from the original $30? __________________ Is you is, or is you ain't, my con-stit-u-ints?