Friday, January 20, 2006

The Answer to the Missing Dollar

The answer is in the way the question is worded. You cannot add what one person HAS to what someone else has PAID and come up with any kind of a meaningful number, you have to subtract.
Each man has paid $9. The bellhop has $2. Difference
$9 x 3 = $27 2 $25
The hotel clerk has the other 25 dollars.
To look at it from the standpoint of the original $30.
Each man has $1. The bellhop has $2. The hotel clerk has $25. Total
$1 x 3 = $3 2 25 $30

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

whatever smarty pants. i think aliens stole the other one.

Travis Butterfield said...

Well, my answer worked too, I think.

Anonymous said...

hey hey i got it right!!! i am so smart s-m-r-t