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PLEASE help me~ the 3 men at a hotel

  Author:  20778  Category:(Riddle) Created:(9/25/2001 6:59:00 PM)
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ok my teacher told this one to us and we are all SO confused but here it goes ~ One day 3 men were driving down the road and it starts storming REALLY bad. They try to keep going but eventually pull into an old hotel. They walk in and ask the guy at the counter if he had any rooms and he said "Yeah i have one left..but it only has one bed and no1 wants it". Well these guys were pretty poor at the time so they were wondering how much it was. To their luck it was only 30 bucks.The first guy goes into his pocket and pulls out a 10 dollar bill "I have my part"he says. The second guy goes in and pulls out 2 $5 bills "Ditto." he says. Then the 3rd goes through and has enough ones to finish it up. Well they get their luggage and head up to their room and get settled in. Then the manager comes by to tell the guy who sold that room that he accidently sold it for too much and it was only 25 bucks. The manager says "Look , i want you to take $5 up to them and pay them back now" so the guy is heading up the stairs and as he is going up she starts thinking to himself... what if i kept only 2 dollars..they would have 3 and could easilly split it up while i get extra money! so he kept the 2 bucks and gave the guys $3 back. (keep in mind that they originally paid 10 dollars each , then got a dollar back which equals 9) So now that they only paid 9 dollars in all-- that equals $27 and the guy at the counter still has 2 dollars which turns out to be $29...where is the extra dollar to equal 30 ??

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Date: 9/25/2001 7:06:00 PM  From Authorid: 37125    omg, i used to know this 1... -thinks really hard trying to figure the answer- the guy with the ones only paid 9 i think... i don't remember!!!! grrr sycohpathic mynd  
Date: 9/25/2001 7:08:00 PM  From Authorid: 39258    guy a payed 10. guy b payed 10. guy c payed 10. all together, thats 30. the room was 25. they payed 5 dollars to much. the hotel owes them 5. the girl takes 2. that means there is 3 left. one dollar for each man. it equals 30... they are just trying to confuse you with them paying 27 and all that mumbo jumbo -telsha  
Date: 9/25/2001 7:10:00 PM  From Authorid: 13985    ok i figured it out.. the room was 25, they each got three back that makes 27, and the guy has two.. thats 25. You have to look at it from the view of the 25 not the 30. luv,  
Date: 9/25/2001 7:18:00 PM  From Authorid: 41847    if u go threw and do that math, okay each person payed 10, then they had 5 extra, and each person got 3 and except ther person giving them the money that persong got to, so the math is 10x3-5+3=28+2=30, all that is, is the person telling u it wrong, it was made to confused you and that is what it did, not being meen or any thing, but when you have a problem like this write down the number, and do that math. the extra doller whent to one of the guy's, that's the answer. King Spawn  
Date: 9/25/2001 7:22:00 PM  From Authorid: 42602    This is a really good brain teaser!! I have to agree with Snapple. *hugs* kandbmom  
Date: 9/26/2001 2:16:00 AM  From Authorid: 27051    man... that is confusing!!!  
Date: 9/26/2001 1:39:00 PM  From Authorid: 37775    I've heard this b4 on one of those fwd emial things hold on let me think.  
Date: 9/26/2001 1:44:00 PM  From Authorid: 37775    Ok ok. all 2gether each guy paid 9 bucks but thats to much for the room. (room=25) Now the 2 that the guy took away would have been deducted off the entire bill to don't 4get even though the 3 guys didn't get the cash. So u take it away and that makes 25. There is no 1 missing. They tried to confuse u with all the words.
  
Date: 10/6/2001 8:09:00 PM  From Authorid: 43515    You cannot reverse the flow of math that way. That is the answer your teacher is looking for. It is very coy about it but it does do a reverse divison that is not allowed in the rules of math....look closer.
Date: 10/7/2001 6:03:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 20778    ooo gotcha ..thanx yall  

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