02-05-2007, 04:26 AM
This Saturday I was at a friends house, and her mom told me this insane riddle. At first I was baffled, but it's actually simple. See if you can figure it out!
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There are three people going to stay at a motel. The cost is $30. The three people decide to split the cost, each paying $10.
Upon arriving at the motel, the bus boy says that the price has been lowered to $25. Since they had already paid, he needed to give them $5.
The three people decided to each take $1 each and give the remaining $2 to the bus boy as a tip. This means they each paid $9 rather than $10 because they were all given $1 back.
If each person paid 9$, then they paid 27$ in total (9*3). Add that to the $2 they gave the bus boy, and you only get 29$.
Where did the last $1 go?
-yah