[Rhodes22-list] Solution and one more?

[Paul Grandholm]

Todd,

     This must be an incredibly old riddle or math problem because there 
hasn't been any such thing as a $30 or $25 hotel room for a long, long 
time.  The answer is that the clerk charged $25 plus the $2 kept by the 
bellboy equals the $27 paid by the three salesmen.  $30 has nothing to do 
with it.

Paul

>Three salesman  came into town for a big convention.  Every hotel in town was
> booked up and none had made reservations.  They tried to check into the only
> hotel with a vacancy at the same time.  The desk clerk told them he only had
> one room left and the rate was $25/night.  The three men decided to share
> the room and get two roll-away beds.
>
>The desk clerk said then the room was $30 instead of $25,  so each man paid
> $10.    Later on the desk clerk felt guilty about cheating the men out of
> the five bucks and gave the bell boy five and sent him to the salesmen's
> room to return it.  The bellboy decided to only give them three and kept two
> for himself.
>
>So if each man got a dollar back, then each paid $9.   9 x 3 is 27 and the
> two the bell boy kept makes 29.  What happened to the last dollar?


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Paul Grandholm
C&H Technology
GrandPower Components Div.
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