Clicks and Giggles: Riddle Me This
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I found the book after I remembered what book it was. The answer is, darkness. You just got Hobbited.
You said I couldn't google it. Books are fair game.
Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.
Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back, each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.
Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back, each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
You knew what I meant.... (jk, I don't care)
There was one dollar in taxes? But you said that they paid $10 but then only $9. Make up your mind!
There was one dollar in taxes? But you said that they paid $10 but then only $9. Make up your mind!
Oh my. I rememer this one, in the 8th grade I talked to my math teacher for about a halfhour on the subject... Give me a sec I'll get it...
It just means they essentially payed 9 dollars each once they got their dollars back.Broken Orange said:
From 27 you actually take away the 2, leaving you with 25, the amount actually paid. The point is to not get to 30, but to get to 25
