25 February 2008

Mind Game

This one will mess with your mind...

3 men go into a motel. The man behind the desk said the room is $30, so each man paid $10 and went to the room.

A while later the man behind the desk realized the room was only $25, so he sent the bellboy to the 3 guys' room with $5.

On the way, the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split $5 evenly between 3 men, so he gave each man a $1 and kept the other $2 for himself.

This meant that the 3 men each paid $9 for the room, which is a total of $27, add the $2 that the bellboy kept = $29.

Where is the other dollar?

Can you find it ?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This one will mess with your mind...

3 men go into a motel. The man behind the desk said the room is $30, so each man paid $10 and went to the room.

A while later the man behind the desk realized the room was only $25, so he sent the bellboy to the 3 guys' room with $5.

On the way, the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split $5 evenly between 3 men, so he gave each man a $1 and kept the other $2 for himself.

This meant that the 3 men each paid $9 for the room, which is a total of $27, add the $2 that the bellboy kept = $29.

Where is the other dollar?

Can you find it ?

The extra dollar is in the change that the bell boy couldnt figure out. =)

Hardy Chen said...

The answer :
Actually 3 men paid a total of $27.
$25 is for the room and the other $2 is on the bell boy pocket. :-)

Videsh Moonan said...

The man behind the desk has the missing dollar. each guest should have paid 8.33 but instead paid nine dollars. the guests overpaid, so thats why they are missing a dollar.