Tuner puzzle (Non technical)

[Joseph Alkana]

At 08:05 PM 6/24/98 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
>
>

Dave,

So,  that's how the government would like to balance the budget! Change the
"missing dollar" to billions and ...

Joseph Alkana