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Title: Tuesday Morning BrainTeaser Post by: BFG on April 12, 2005, 11:40:11 am Big sloppy kiss to whoever gets it first ::bussi:: :
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 = $29. WHERE IS THE OTHER DOLLAR? Title: Re: Tuesday Morning BrainTeaser Post by: *DAMN Mauti on April 12, 2005, 11:48:42 am Lol I take your sloppy kiss but don't want to burst the fun for the others. At all it's easy if you follow basic math rules ;-)
Bye, Mauti Title: Re: Tuesday Morning BrainTeaser Post by: Civrock on April 12, 2005, 12:02:32 pm yep. ;D
hint: the actual question is not "where is the other dollar?". beware of ostensible reasoning! ;) Title: Re: Tuesday Morning BrainTeaser Post by: c| Lone-Wolf on April 12, 2005, 12:19:54 pm I blame my slow response on the fact that I got four hours of sleep last night, and it's 3:15 in the morning right now. I got it, eventually. But i'll leave it unanswered so someone else can get BFG's lovin'. ;)
And now i can finally sleep in peace. Title: Re: Tuesday Morning BrainTeaser Post by: bronto on April 12, 2005, 04:42:00 pm you forgot to mention that the three guys were wearing gimp suits and carrying assorted phallic items.
Title: Re: Tuesday Morning BrainTeaser Post by: :MoD:Shade on April 13, 2005, 12:18:37 am Can I get a big sloppy kiss anyway? ::lieb::
Title: Re: Tuesday Morning BrainTeaser Post by: BFG on April 13, 2005, 12:48:53 am you can allways have a big sloppy ::bussi::
Come on then someone write the answer up ;) Title: Re: Tuesday Morning BrainTeaser Post by: Civrock on April 13, 2005, 01:02:37 am your brainteaser is an example of a false problem. you cannot add the 27$ to the 2$ as the 2$ that is now with the bellboy is actually part of the 27$ they finally paid for the room! so there is no question of 1$ being "missing"!
in fact, you have to add the 27$ to the 3$ that the men got back. although the 3 men paid 27$ they didn't give that money to the hotelkeeper. the fact is that the 2$ extra that they paid is with the bellboy. so the original 30$ is distributed as follows: hotelkeeper 25$, bellboy 2$, 3 men 3$. beware of ostensible reasoning! ;) |