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From: eric@whuxlb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Bucks yuks - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 12-Jul-83 18:54:16 EDT
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whuxlb!eric    Jul  5 20:54:00 1983

/***** whuxlb:net.jokes / rocheste!brown /  7:13 pm  Jul  5, 1983*/
Three guys check into a room at hotel, are charged $30.  Manager
emerges from back when they've gone upstairs, tells desk clerk he's
overcharged the guys -- the room's $25.  Clerk gives $5 to bellhop
to refund.  On way up, bellhop decides dividing 5 by 3 is a hassle,
and the guys wouldn't be Big Tippers anyway, so he refunds three
bucks and keeps two. Now: each of the guys has spent $9, and the
bellhop has $2 for a total of $29.  Where'd the other dollar go?
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	The flaw that makes this puzzle so puzzling is that
you are not trying to add up to $30, but to $25. The room cost
$25, not thirty, remember???? 

	Ok. Each guy originally forks up $10 (3 x 10 = $30). The
manager gives back $5, so the total is now $25 for the room.
(30 - 5 = $25). The maid gives each man back $1, and keeps $2 for
herself ($25 + (3 x 1) + 2 = $30). Now for the confusion...

	Each guy paid $9, and the maid kept $2, and the room cost
$25, right. Ok. (3 x 9 [ for the men ]) - 2 [for the maid] = $25
for the manager. QED


			Eric Holtman
			WH 1c-352d, x4890
			harpo!whuxlb!eric