[Rhodes22-list] Solution and one more?

[Mark Kaynor]

For a $25 room, each man paid $8.33 except for the third guy who paid $8.34.
When they each got $1 back, that made it $9.33 + $9.33 + $9.34 = $28. The
bellboy's $2 makes $30.

And, if you're not allowed to cut the apples (even if you are, actually)
there's no correct answer for the apple riddle.

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Grandholm" <PAUL@mi.chtechnology.com>
To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 3:45 PM
Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Solution and one more?


> Todd,
>
>      This must be an incredibly old riddle or math problem because there
> hasn't been any such thing as a $30 or $25 hotel room for a long, long
> time.  The answer is that the clerk charged $25 plus the $2 kept by the
> bellboy equals the $27 paid by the three salesmen.  $30 has nothing to do
> with it.
>
> Paul
>
> >Three salesman  came into town for a big convention.  Every hotel in town
was
> > booked up and none had made reservations.  They tried to check into the
only
> > hotel with a vacancy at the same time.  The desk clerk told them he only
had
> > one room left and the rate was $25/night.  The three men decided to
share
> > the room and get two roll-away beds.
> >
> >The desk clerk said then the room was $30 instead of $25,  so each man
paid
> > $10.    Later on the desk clerk felt guilty about cheating the men out
of
> > the five bucks and gave the bell boy five and sent him to the salesmen's
> > room to return it.  The bellboy decided to only give them three and kept
two
> > for himself.
> >
> >So if each man got a dollar back, then each paid $9.   9 x 3 is 27 and
the
> > two the bell boy kept makes 29.  What happened to the last dollar?
>
>
> ========================
> Paul Grandholm
> C&H Technology
> GrandPower Components Div.
> ========================
>
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