Here's one I could never figure out: Three guys rent a hotel room for $30.00. Each one hands the desk clerk $10.00. Later, the desk clerk realizes the room is actually only $25.00, so he asks the bellhop to take $5.00 up to the room to reimburse the three guys. The bellhop figures three guys can't evenly split $5.00, so he goes to the room and gives them each $1.00 refund, and keeps $2.00 for himself. So..... The three guys end up paying $9.00 each for the room ($10 minus $1 refund.) Three times nine is $27.00 and the bellhop has $2.00. That comes out to a total of $29.00. Where's the other dollar?
5:08 That's a good one, but there isn't another dollar. It's semantics and very confusing. The three guys actually paid $27 for a $25 room (North SBY no doubt) and the bellhop kept the $2 difference.
The answer will be 6:15pm
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ReplyDelete9.
ReplyDeleteNine is the answer. But the two people above who wrote that aren't that smart. They googled the answer.
ReplyDeleteHow could you possibly know the two that got the answer before you googled the solution?
DeleteIt doesn't say before 1 AM. So I'm going with any hour because "it's 5 o'clock somewhere".
ReplyDelete9:00 PM
ReplyDeleteIt's 4:20 somewhere.
ReplyDeleteMy watch is never wrong: it just says 'now'.
ReplyDeleteI suggest 9 O'clock as well.
ReplyDeleteHow could it possibly be on the quarter hour?
Here's one I could never figure out:
ReplyDeleteThree guys rent a hotel room for $30.00.
Each one hands the desk clerk $10.00.
Later, the desk clerk realizes the room is actually only $25.00, so he asks the bellhop to take $5.00 up to the room to reimburse the three guys.
The bellhop figures three guys can't evenly split $5.00, so he goes to the room and gives them each $1.00 refund, and keeps $2.00 for himself.
So..... The three guys end up paying $9.00 each for the room ($10 minus $1 refund.)
Three times nine is $27.00 and the bellhop has $2.00.
That comes out to a total of $29.00.
Where's the other dollar?
5:08 That's a good one, but there isn't another dollar. It's semantics and very confusing. The three guys actually paid $27 for a $25 room (North SBY no doubt) and the bellhop kept the $2 difference.
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ReplyDeleteExcellent question.
I cannot explain it!
5:29:
ReplyDeleteYa gotta explain!
To me, there's still a dollar missing!