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Subj:.....Three
Guys Rent A Room (S424b, S658)
From: LABLaughsRiddles on 3/9/2005
Drawing
from JBCARY1 on 10/20/2003...
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Three guys walk into
town. They go into a hotel and ask for
a room they can share.
The clerk has just the thing they
want for thirty dollars.
The clerk sends them to the room,
takes out the ledger,
and realizes that he made a mistake.
The room costs only
twenty-five dollars. Now he has to
divide five dollars
evenly three ways. Can't be done. So
the clerk pockets
two dollars, tells the guys that he made
a three dollar mistake
and gives them each a single. Now,
each man paid only
nine dollars for his share of the room.
Nine times three
equals twenty seven, plus the two in the
clerk's pocket equals
twenty nine. Where's the other dollar?
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from darrell94590 on 1/2/2006 |
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THE SOLUTION
You're not trying
to find the thirty dollars - you're trying
to find twenty five
dollars - the 3 guys paid thirty, minus
the 3 they got back,
minus the 2 in the clerk's pocket -
you're not supposed
to add them when he gives it back, it's
still part of the
same thirty. |
