Author Topic: Can you figure this out? (Read 652 times)

« **on:** June 18, 2003, 03:11:53 AM »

for some reason,when we were walking home drunk on saturday night (well,stumbling around to be precise) my mate Karl asked me this question (don\'t know why) and I couldn\'t figure it out so he emailed it to meand I still can\'t figure it out...can you?

3 men go to a hotel and ask for one room for the night,the man behind the counter says that will be £30,each of the men pay £10 each.
when the men have gone to their room the man behind the counter relises that he has overcharged them as the room cost £25.so in the till there was five,one pound coins,but how was he going to share it between 3 men.
so he gave the five one pound coins to the door man and asked him to sort it out when he saw the men,the doorman thought how am i going to share this out between 3 men,so the doorman kept £2 and gave the men £1 back each.

the 3 men in the end payed £9 each for the room which comes to £27
the doorman took £2 which the total is now £29
so where is the other £1?

strange.

« **Reply #1 on:** June 18, 2003, 03:17:45 AM »

they are with three, two get 1 pound the door man gets 3, not 2

« **Reply #2 on:** June 18, 2003, 03:21:32 AM »

to make it clearer: 2 man pay 9 for the room, the door man pays only 7, so 9+9+7 is 25, ad to that the returned 5 and you get 30

« **Reply #3 on:** June 18, 2003, 03:26:27 AM »

this is not a doozy once u think about it, the guys paid £10 each at first they did not pay £9 as stated in the end of yer post (this is where the "trick" lies).

« **Reply #4 on:** June 18, 2003, 06:20:08 AM »

What type of gay hotel is this, where 3 men share a room together and end up pounding the doorman???!!!

:nut: :eek:

« **Reply #5 on:** June 18, 2003, 06:22:31 AM »

videoholic · « **Reply #6 on:** June 18, 2003, 08:26:20 AM »

start with 30 bucks, gives dudes back 3 dollars making it 27 bucks. he keeps the remaining 2 bucks making it 25 NOT 29. He is adding the 2 remaining bucks instead of subtracting. That is where the trick is.

« **Reply #7 on:** June 18, 2003, 09:25:10 AM »

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Originally posted by videoholic
start with 30 bucks, gives dudes back 3 dollars making it 27 bucks. he keeps the remaining 2 bucks making it 25 NOT 29. He is adding the 2 remaining bucks instead of subtracting. That is where the trick is.

AHAA!!!! So, you WERE there that night!!! I always wondered about you.

:eek: :nut: :sconf:

videoholic · « **Reply #8 on:** June 18, 2003, 09:26:29 AM »

Yeah, and I want my 2 bucks damnit!!

MPTheory · « **Reply #9 on:** June 18, 2003, 10:01:28 AM »

yeah, and my ass hurts!... oh, wait. JK

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Author Topic: Can you figure this out? (Read 652 times)