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Bit of a maths puzzle

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foozer:

--- Quote from: John Hill on July 14, 2010, 03:25:43 AM ---Rather good for children but some adults get confused too!

"Three guys walk into a cheap hotel and ask to stay the night, the clerk says they will have to share and the room is $30, so they each pay $10 and up they.  The manager was listening from his office and came out to chew a strip off the clerk.  The room is only $25 and the clerk was to take the change to the room and not do that again.  On the way upstairs the clerk decides it is too hard to divide $5 by 3 so he just gives each man one dollar and keeps the other two dollars for himself.

Now then, each man paid ten dollars and got one dollar back, so nine dollars each,  three nines is twenty seven and the two dollars in the clerk's pocket makes twenty nine so what happened to the missing dollar?"

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3 9's make 27 and "and" is the trick. Gets ya to think its a positive addition when its really a minus 'and the two dollars in the clerk's pocket makes twenty nine' rather the clerks 2 bucks is a -2 as was the 3 bucks given back, so it  makes 25

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