Tuner puzzle (Non technical)

[Wimblees@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-06-24 20:21:09 EDT, you write:

<< 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 >>


You subtracted the $3 from $30, but then you added the $2 to the $27.
Substract the $2 from $27, and you get $25, which is what the room costs.

The hell witht he puzzle. What I want to know is which Holiday Inn charges
only $30 for a room. 

Wim