Where'd the dollar go?

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Where'd the dollar go?

Postby Orwell » Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:33 am

Three travellers go to a a hotel. The clerk tells them it will be thirty dollars for all three to stay. They each pay ten bucks each. Later the clerk realizes that they were over charged by five dollars and gives five one dollar bills to the bellhop to give back to the men.

The bellhop decides that because there are three men he will give them each one dollar back and keep two for himself.

The three men each receive the dollar back from the ten they gave, so each man has now paid 9 dollars each. Between them that now accounts for twenty seven dollars. So the bellhop has kept two dollars, that added to the 27 dollars the men have paid for the room, equals 29 dollars.

What happened to the remaining dollar?
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Postby Copycat_Revolver » Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:05 am

Koop ate it.

True story. I was there.
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Postby Copycat_Revolver » Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:06 am

Although if you want a serious answer, it didn't go anywhere. One of the three men actually only paid seven dollars for the stay but the bellhop took his two extra dollars.
Technically he did pay nine, but two of them went to the bellhop, in other words.

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Postby guy07 » Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:02 pm

I agree with copycat.
That koop ate it.
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Postby NS » Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:46 pm

I've heard this riddle....so..many..times >_>.. and I never knew what the answer was :O.
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Postby Unlimited Rice » Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:03 pm

I remember solving this riddle as extra credit on a math exam one time.

[spoiler]There is no missing dollar.
The total for the hotel for all of them was $30, but they were charged $5 over, so that means to stay, it only cost them $25.
Each of the three guests got a $1 back. So that's $3.
The bell hop kept $2

25 + 3 + 2 = 30[/spoiler]


edit: oh, somebody already answered it. Um.... uh... hey what's up!
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Re: Where'd the dollar go?

Postby Kalium » Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:35 pm

Orwell wrote:What happened to the remaining dollar?

Fuzzy math.
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Postby downwithpants » Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:02 pm

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Postby EffectLessMind » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:57 pm

The man who made it dosnt want it the man who buys it dosnt use it the man who is using it dosnt know it what is it?



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Postby Unlimited Rice » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:39 am

EffectLessMind wrote:The man who made it dosnt want it the man who buys it dosnt use it the man who is using it dosnt know it what is it?


If this is the riddle that I think it is, for that last part don't you mean "the man who is using it doesn't know he's using it" ?
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Postby Kitsuner » Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:43 am

EffectLessMind wrote:The man who made it dosnt want it the man who buys it dosnt use it the man who is using it dosnt know it what is it?



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Postby godix » Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:15 pm

I prefer <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060104132324/http://www.kissonline.com/kasket/">this link</a>.
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Postby Kitsuner » Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:21 am

godix wrote:I prefer <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060104132324/http://www.kissonline.com/kasket/">this link</a>.

What's the difference between autographed and signed?
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Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:51 am

MrDoctorDoctorGimmeDaNews wrote:What's the difference between autographed and signed?

20 bucks and an insincere greeting/handshake.
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Postby Fall_Child42 » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:00 am

more puzzles plz?
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