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Originally Posted by fintstone
Where did you account for the $2? Not even close.
To arrive at $27, you would have to have already included the $2 tip as part of the $9 each...and the additional 3 dollars would be the ones taken back (not the construct of the problem).
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Fint being Fint.
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There is no missing dollar from the original $30 because after getting $1 back, the three travelers had paid a total of $27 for their room ($9 each), not $30. Out of that $27, the hotel has $25 and the clerk kept the remaining $2. If you still want to work from the original $30, the travelers have $3, the hotel has $25 and the bellboy has $2. The misleading part is adding the bellboy’s $2 to the $27, when in fact it should be subtracted.