There ain't no missing dollar. Hotel got $25, bellhop got $2 and each tuner got $1 back. Total $30. Terry Beckingham At 20:05 24/06/1998 EDT, you wrote: > >Three tuners check in to the Holiday Inn for the convention and are told that >the room is $30. Each tuner gives the clerk $10 and they go up to their room. >Soon the clerk realizes that the room is really $25 and has the bell hop take >$5 back to the tuners. On his way up to the room, he figures that since the >tuners won't be able to split the $5 evenly, he will keep $2 and give the >tuners back $3, which he does. > >So, the tuners each get back $1, meaning that they each paid $9 for the room. >$9 times 3 tuners is $27, add the $2 that the bell hop kept, comes to $29. >Where is the other $1 ?? > >Dave Bunch > >
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