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Originally Posted by Mo_Gearhead
Three men walk into a hotel and ask for a room for the night.
The clerks says: "Rooms are $10 per night - per occupant." They each give him $10.
Later, his boss (looking at the days receipts) tells him, "You forgot our Tuesday Special Rate. Those men's room should have only been twenty five dollars." He hands the clerk a five dollar bill and says, "Take them this."
The simple-minded cleck, as he's walking to their room, ponders the delima of dividing five dollars between three men? To simplify his problem, he puts the Five in his pocket and takes out three ones. At the room he gives each man a dollar.
Three times nine = $27
The clerk kept $2
Total = $29
What happened to the other dollar?
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There's no missing dollar - you're adding two different sides of the balance sheet. On one side is what the three men paid, which is $10-$1 a piece, which is $27 total. Then, there is what the is in the register, which is $30-$5, plus the $2 that the clerk keeps, which equals $27, which is what the men spent. The final amount doesn't have to equal $30.
Or, if you look at it using the "actual" dollars, $25 of the actual dollars are in the register, $2 are in the clerk's pocket, and $3 are in the men's hands ($1 for each).