Just For Fun
Situation: Three consultants go on an overnight toot to Las Vegas. After losing most of their money at the Blackjack tables, they decide to get a cheap hotel room so they can shower and shave before catching their flight back to the client site. The room is $30, so they each give the front desk clerk ten dollars.
After they go upstairs, the front desk clerk realizes that it’s after midnight, so he should only have charged the men $25 instead of $30. He hands the bellhop five one-dollar bills with instructions to return the money to the men in their room.
On the way upstairs, the bellhop decides to keep two dollars for himself. He knocks on the door and gives each of the men one dollar.
Challenge: Now, each of the men has paid $9 which adds up to $27 and the bellhop has $2, which adds up to $29. What happened to the other dollar?
$30 no longer had significance when the price changed.
The price became $25, plus the $2 "handling fee," or $27 total. $30 no longer mattered when the price changed.
I always enjoyed these brainteasers. Thanks.
Fuzzy math
I agree with Casey. Another way to look at it: The men originally paid $30. The bellhop kept $2, so the men ultimately paid $28/3 = $9.33. Good one, though.
Confusing cost and price?
The three men didn't pay $9 each; they paid $10 each, that's $30.
The bellhop has $2. The men each have $1 for a total of $3. The hotel has $25. $2+$3+$25 = $30.
Nothing happened to the other dollar...it's just fuzzy math
Thanks for the brain-teaser...