[Rhodes22-list] Solution and one more?

[Rik Sandberg]

Mark,

Don't know about a "correct answer", but the apple riddle will work out,
with out cutting any apples. Trouble is, it will work out two different ways
that I have found so I can't tell you which way is "correct".

Rik

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Kaynor" <mark@kaynor.org>
To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Solution and one more?


> For a $25 room, each man paid $8.33 except for the third guy who paid
$8.34.
> When they each got $1 back, that made it $9.33 + $9.33 + $9.34 = $28. The
> bellboy's $2 makes $30.
>
> And, if you're not allowed to cut the apples (even if you are, actually)
> there's no correct answer for the apple riddle.
>
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Grandholm" <PAUL@mi.chtechnology.com>
> To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 3:45 PM
> Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Solution and one more?
>
>
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > ========================
> > Paul Grandholm
> > C&H Technology
> > GrandPower Components Div.
> > ========================
> >
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