Try this.. if you are bored :D

Three people check into a hotel.
They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room.
The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25
and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people.

On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5
would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2
and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1.
So they paid £9 each,

totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1

i count till lost le.. =(

Total payment = $30
Total of room charge = $25
Bellboy return the 3 guys $3.
Bellboy took $2.
The 3 guys "paid" (30 - bellboy took $2 = $28)
$28 - the bellboy return $3 = $25 (room charge)

SOLVED!
* I think the way I type is confusing. Lol. I know I'm correct. LOL.

Let's give each of the $30 a number from 1-30, keep track of each individual dollar, and see how the problem works.

Dollars numbered 1-30 are given to the manager. Then he wants to give $5 back, so he keeps the dollars numbered 1-25, and gives numbers 26-30 to the bellboy in the form of a five dollar bill. The bellboy splits up the five to get 5 one's: numbers 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30. He gives numbers 26, 27 and 28 to the customers and keeps numbers 29 and 30 for himself.





xD HAHAHA. This answer was after figuring out yh's answer~ yh did it without any help! kudos!

still lost -slur-

DragQueenJac wrote:still lost -slur-

aiyo, and i thought that yh's and my explanation were clear enough! maybe you write it out on paper?

The 1 buck isnt lost. LOL. This question is purposely made to confuses all readers.
YH solved it beautifully~ 1 ThumbUp for u YH

i'm still lost.. =(

epic phailz

lol. its jus tt e qns was told in a misleadin way. if u think it out slowly n logically
u'll derive at e ans.

They paid a total of 27 pounds (9 each), 25 went to the hotel and 2 went to the bellboy