Tuesday Morning BrainTeaser

[BFG]

Big sloppy kiss to whoever gets it first     :

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?

[*DAMN Mauti]

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

[Civrock]

yep.

hint: the actual question is not "where is the other dollar?". beware of ostensible reasoning!

[c| Lone-Wolf]

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.

[bronto]

you forgot to mention that the three guys were wearing gimp suits and carrying assorted phallic items.

[:MoD:Shade]

Can I get a big sloppy kiss anyway? 

[BFG]

you can allways have a big sloppy

Come on then someone write the answer up  

[Civrock]

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!