Soon, the desk clerk realized that he made an error and the room was only $25. So he gave a bell boy five 1 dollar bills to take up to the businessmen.
On the way to the businessmen's room, the bellboy thought, "why should I give them the whole $5? It'll just cause dissension and awkwardness amongst them." So he pocketed $2 and gave the businessmen $3 to split amongst themselves evenly.
Now, the businessmen each got a dollar back and paid $10:
$10 - $1 = $9
And there were three businessmen:
$9 x 3 = $27
And if you add that to the $2 that the bellboy kept:
$27 + $2 = $29
So what happened to the extra dollar?!
1 comment:
jangweon + nina and i spent 27 minutes solving this... and we hate you
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