people good at math..

MIKEISSMALL · 08-29-2007, 05:04 AM

Bill, mike and jermey decide theyre going to go on a hunting trip and start looking for a room to rent up north. They find a nice place and end up calling and finding out its $30. They agree that $10 is not that bad. so they book the room.
They show up and each give the guy 10$ and the guy tells them to leave their bags in the lobby and the bellboy will bring it up to them shortly.. The guy starts going throught he bill and realized that the room is only 25 and he ****d up so he gives the bell boy the 5 and tells him to give it to the 3 guys when he goes up to give them the bags... The bellboy goes upstairs and gives the guy their bags and tells them they were overly charge 5$ and since they cant split the 5 bucks.. hes gonna give them each 1. and keep 2 for a tip..

so they each spend 9$ right?? giving the guy 10$ and getting 1 dollar back =9
9x3 =27 ... plus the guys 2 dollar tip.. = 29. where did the other dollar go?

Rotty101 · 08-29-2007, 05:11 AM

I do enough of that **** at scool. If someone asked me that id seriously ****ing punch them since ur on teh internetz i will have to neg.

Worldwide · 08-29-2007, 05:22 AM

who gives a flying ****, it's a dollar

Mourning Tide · 08-29-2007, 05:27 AM

Ok they pay $25 for the room and each get $1 back each which equals $3 and the busboy keeps $2.

$25+3+2 = $30

Mark_ey · 08-29-2007, 05:38 AM

9 x 3= 27 + 2 = 29

something doesn't add up

I get it the trick is to make you think 9 x 3 because that changes the whole total because your counting the 9 but not including the other 2 dollars into the equation properly.

Step by step it would be

10 X 3 = 30 - 5 = 25 + 3 = 28 + 2 = 30 <-

Simply they spent 27 bucks

25 for the room and 2 for the tip

and received 3 dollars back

These are trick questions.

JACKIECHANFAN · 08-29-2007, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by MIKEISSMALL

Bill, mike and jermey decide theyre going to go on a hunting trip and start looking for a room to rent up north. They find a nice place and end up calling and finding out its $30. They agree that $10 is not that bad. so they book the room.
They show up and each give the guy 10$ and the guy tells them to leave their bags in the lobby and the bellboy will bring it up to them shortly.. The guy starts going throught he bill and realized that the room is only 25 and he ****d up so he gives the bell boy the 5 and tells him to give it to the 3 guys when he goes up to give them the bags... The bellboy goes upstairs and gives the guy their bags and tells them they were overly charge 5$ and since they cant split the 5 bucks.. hes gonna give them each 1. and keep 2 for a tip..

so they each spend 9$ right?? giving the guy 10$ and getting 1 dollar back =9
9x3 =27 ... plus the guys 2 dollar tip.. = 29. where did the other dollar go?

I'm going to break it down retard style.

The men initially spent $10 each, for a total of $30. The hotel received the $30, but only kept $25, returning the other $5, so the hotel received $25.

The bellboy received $2 and the men each received a $1 refund (for a total of $3). Seen this way, the men spent $30, and the hotel received $25, the bellboy received $2, and the men received $3, for a total received of $30.

If we wanted to get more complicated, the men spent $30 on the room, which the hotel received. The hotel then spent $5 on the refund, of which the bellboy received $2 and the men received $3. Then the total spent is $35 ($30 by the men and $5 by the hotel), and the total received is $35 ($30 by the hotel, $2 by the bellboy, and $3 by the men as a refund).