Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Try figure this out....

Options
  • 08-07-2008 10:29am
    #1
    Steve_o
    Registered Users Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭


    This may not be the appropriate forum because its more of a riddle than a joke, so mods please move if its in the wrong place.

    3 MEN GO INTO A HOTEL.
    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?


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Yeah I know this one but can't be bowered writing it down.
    It's deliberate miscalculation.

    Check out Puzzles & Quizzes for more


  • Options
    #3
    The Bollox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    biko wrote: »
    Yeah I know this one but can't be bowered writing it down.
    It's deliberate miscalculation.

    ditto, read it before, it's quite good though


  • Options
    #4
    Blackhorse Slim
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 1,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Blackhorse Slim


    Steve_o wrote: »
    3 MEN GO INTO A HOTEL.

    Steve_o wrote: »
    HE GAVE EACH MAN A $1 AND KEPT THE OTHER $2 FOR HIMSELF.

    He got an extra dollar himself.


  • Options
    #5
    Steve_o
    Registered Users Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    Blackhorse Slim wrote: »
    He got an extra dollar himself.

    But the $2 dollars he took was added in!!


  • Options
    #6
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    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.
    This is the problem. The 27 already contain the boy's 2 dollars. The rest 28, 29, 30 goes to the men.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    Blackhorse Slim
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 1,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Blackhorse Slim


    Steve_o wrote: »
    But the $2 dollars he took was added in!!

    He took $3, not $2. $1 dollar each includes him, he is one of the three men. So he took $1+$2 = $3


    Edit; ok, I misread it.


  • Options
    #8
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    you don't add the 2 dollars the bell boy takes, you subtract it. This means that the lads paid 27 dollars between them, 25 to the owner and 2 to the bell boy. No mystery i'm afraid


  • Options
    #9
    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭MOH


    Steve_o wrote: »
    This may not be the appropriate forum because its more of a riddle than a joke, so mods please move if its in the wrong place.
    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.

    What, he had 3 single dollars and a 2-dollar note? :)

    They paid 10 each for the room, and got 1 back each, so ened up paying 9 each. Out of that 27, the bellboy got 2 and the hotel got 25.

    I still want to know where that 2-dollar note came from.

    [edit]
    I somehow missed Sam's explanation 3 days ago :o


  • Options
    #10
    rocky25
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭rocky25


    all this adding is annoying :mad:

    But the Take Aways are lubberly :D


  • Options
    #11
    Steve_o
    Registered Users Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    rocky25 wrote: »
    all this adding is annoying :mad:

    But the Take Aways are lubberly :D

    Boo-urns!!!


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    AngryHippie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭AngryHippie


    MOH wrote: »


    I still want to know where that 2-dollar note came from.

    [edit]
    I somehow missed Sam's explanation 3 days ago :o



    US army paid their GI's in WW2 in 2$ notes, so they could track which brothels and bars their troops were using.


  • Options
    #13
    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Nice puzzle, I remember a Maths teach in secondary school telling us it. I seem to remember he made us wait a few days before telling us the answer.
    I still want to know where that 2-dollar note came from.
    Here's one:

    two-2-dollar-bill.jpg
    I'm note advocating printing this out or anything ;).


Advertisement