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Originally posted by tecoyah
three people check into 3 seperate hotel rooms
each room is ten dollars
they give the desk thirty dollars
the manager remembers todays special after they go to the rooms...five dollars off when renting three rooms
he gives the bellhop five dollars to return to the customers
the bellhop decides to make it easy on himself and give them each one dollar back, keeping two
each customer has now paid nine dollars per room
the bellhop has two dollars
9+9+9=27
27+2=29
where is the other dollar?
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not very unanswerable!
You don't add on the two the bellhop still has, you subtract it, to see how much the hotel recieves.
They paid: 9+9+9=27.
Bellhop kept $2 of this 27 for himself.
27-2=25
hotel manager gets $25.