velvetechos ([personal profile] velvetechos) wrote2003-06-04 08:32 pm

Help! It's driving me crazy!!

3x10=30 -5=25 +2=27+3=30
3x9=27+2=29
FUCK


The Missing Dollar!

You might be able to figure this out if you read carefully.

Three men went to a motel. The motel manager said a room cost $30, so each man put up $10 and went to their room. A little while later the manager realized the room was only $25, so he sent the bellhop back to the three guys' room with $5. On the way to the room the bellhop couldn't figure out how to split the $5 between the 3 men, so he gave each one of them $1 and he kept the other $2.

This meant that the 3 men paid $9 each for the room for a total of $27. Add the $2 that the bellhop kept = $29.

Where did the other dollar go?

[identity profile] angelwind.livejournal.com 2003-06-05 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Blah, my math went totally the wrong way in making it work, because it wouldn't. But it was almost sound!

*blush*

[identity profile] velvetechos.livejournal.com 2003-06-05 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
awwww. It's ok. I couldn't even begin to tackle it!