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Holiday Brain Teaser
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02/01/2003 17:19:52
 
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Forum:
Games
Category:
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Thread ID:
00737246
Message ID:
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>>:o)
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>You don't need to lower yourself to stealing. You're smart enough to figure out the fuse thing. I always thought I was a pretty smart guy and I still don't see how burning the other end of the fuse after the first one goes out gives you 15 mins.
>
>OK, here's one for ya.
>Three guys go to a hotel and the price is $30 (Apparently a cheap hotel). They pay $10 each. The hotel manager realizes that he over charged them. It should have been only $25. He gives the bell boy the five dollars to give back to the men he overcharged. This bell boy is not smart enough to divide the $5 between 3 people. (He'll never be promoted to bell man). Anyway, he give each of the men $1 each and keeps $2 for himself.
>
>So, each man originally paid $10, got $1 back so they paid $9.
>3 x $9 = $27
>Plus the $2 the bell boy kept makes $29.
>What happened to the missing dollar?

The trick is that you're comparing apples to oranges.
$25 + $2 the bell boy kept is $27.
Now add the $3 given back to the men and you get $30.
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