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cajuninms
New user
44 Posts
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Posted: Apr 10, 2004 12:55pm
Ok here is the basic story
Three men decided to split the cost of a hotel room. The hotel manager gave them a price of $30.
The men split the bill evenly, each paying $10, and went to their room. However the hotel manager realized that it was a Wednesday night, which meant the hotel had a special: rooms were only $25. He had overcharged them $5.
He called the bellboy, gave him 5 one-dollar bills and told him to return it to the men.
When the bellboy explained the situation to the men, they were so pleased at the honesty of the establishment that they promptly tipped the bell boy $2 of the $5 he had returned and each kept $1 to himself.
So each of the three men ended up paying $9 (10 minus 1) totaling $27, plus $2 which makes $29.
WHERE DID THE EXTRA DOLLAR GO???
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Mikey-Flys
Regular user
Edmonton, Alberta
179 Posts
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Posted: Apr 10, 2004 1:13pm
Well known misuse of math but still puzzles people if presented convincingly.
The hotel room only cost 25 $ Thus 27 $ (9 * 3) - 2 ( that the bellboy kept) = 25 $ and everything is as it should be.
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drkptrs1975
Elite user
North Eastern PA
452 Posts
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Posted: Apr 12, 2004 4:35pm
This is not hard. The way it is worded can trick people.
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rgranville
Elite user
Boston area
458 Posts
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Posted: Apr 13, 2004 8:22am
And to bring this back into magic, Daryl had a routine where a dollar bill vanishes as he tells this story. It appeared in his 1992 lecture notes (which he was still selling in '96, when I bought them).
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0pus
Inner circle
New Jersey
1138 Posts
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Posted: Apr 13, 2004 11:00am
I believe it also appeared in Labyrinth.
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cajuninms
New user
44 Posts
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Posted: Apr 13, 2004 8:50pm
Ok thx everyone who helped me
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Jonathan Townsend
Eternal Order
Ossining, NY
25257 Posts
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Posted: Apr 13, 2004 9:15pm
Daryl was in the movie Labyrinth?
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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0pus
Inner circle
New Jersey
1138 Posts
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Posted: Apr 13, 2004 10:52pm
No, my mistake. I meant Dan Harlan's and Marv Leventhal's former magazine the Minotaur. [A classical education gives rise to its own oddly distorted recollections.]
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