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Originally Posted by fintstone
Sooner being later:
That is not what the problem said or the answer posted. According to the problem, the $27 did not include the tip. That is where the dollar is lost n the original calculation...but not really lost.
" Three travelers stop at a motel and ask for a room. Manager says the room is $30 and they each pull out a $10 bill. Later, the manager comes to them with five $1 bills, and reporting he erred by charging them the weekday rate on a weekend when rooms are actually just $25. The travelers notice the five $1 bills cannot be evenly distributed among them, so they take each take $1, and the remaining $2 becomes a tip for the manager. At this moment, each traveler has paid a net amount of $9.
Three times nine is 27. Add the manager's tip and you have $29. Where did the remaining dollar go?"
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And as stated above, the inference that the tip to the manager should be add to the $27 is the misleading bit. That is classic misdirection.
Best
Les