A Math Riddle You'd Love to Hate
Three people get a motel room for the night. When they get to the motel they pay a $30 bill for the stay, then go up to their room. Shortly after, the bellhop brings up their bags and gives the people back $5 because the motel was having a weekday discount. So the three people decide to each keep one of the $5 dollars and to give the bellhop a $2 tip. However, when they sat down to tally up their expenses for the motel they could not explain the following details:
Each one of them had originally paid $10 (towards the initial $30), then each got back $1 which meant that they each paid $9. Then they gave the bellhop a $2 tip. HOWEVER, 3 • $9 + $2 = $29
The three people couldn't figure out what happened to the other dollar. After all, the three paid out $30 but could only account for $29.
Any thoughts?
They got $5 back but gave the bellhop $2, so that's the amount that should equal 3*9, and it does. The additional 3 dollars are in their pockets. They each paid $9 including tip, not before tip.
Your equation could read (for sake of clarity) 3*$9= $30-$5+2
But also, yes, your trickiness made me scratch my head for several minutes. An excellent deception! (I mean, "riddle".) ;P
Congratulations @jvet3! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :
Click on any badge to view your own Board of Honnor on SteemitBoard.
For more information about SteemitBoard, click here
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOPBy upvoting this notification, you can help all Steemit users. Learn how here!