mungkiman Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 If the 3 guests were told that the room was $27 total, and they each paid $9... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerwoodKhorns Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 as a tip for himself. Each guest got $1 back: so now each guest only paid $9; bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 + $2 = $29. Where's the other $1? Schu had it, just a small math error. This is a good puzzle. At first I thought that it was too easy, then looked at the real question. Where is the other $1? So the question is not to just account for all of the money, that is easy. The question is if each guest paid $9 and the Bellhop got $2, why doesn't this all add up to the total $30 originally paid. You have to figure out where the error is burried in the puzzle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eth2 Posted June 19, 2014 Author Share Posted June 19, 2014 If two is company, and three is a crowd, what is four and five? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 If two is company, and three is a crowd, what is four and five? A Klipsch forum thread.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eth2 Posted June 19, 2014 Author Share Posted June 19, 2014 If two is company, and three is a crowd, what is four and five? A Klipsch forum thread.... bzzzzzzzz.......Wrong! Thanks for playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 If two is company, and three is a crowd, what is four and five? A Klipsch forum thread.... bzzzzzzzz.......Wrong! Thanks for playing. Re-try..... What is a Klipsch forum thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 True of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjd Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 If two is company, and three is a crowd, what is four and five? four and five is nine..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjd Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Schu had it, just a small math error. This is a good puzzle. At first I thought that it was too easy, then looked at the real question. Agreed, great job Schu. Here is another one for Schu......Yesterday, the first customer in a bookstore gave the salesclerk a $10 bill for a $3 book. Having no change, the clerk took the $10 bill across the street to a clothing store to get it broken down into ten $1 bills. The clerk then gave the customer the book worth $3 and seven $1 bills as change. An hour later the clothing-store salesclerk brought back the $10 bill demanding her money back, claiming that the bill was counterfeit. To avoid quarreling, the bookstore salesclerk decided to give her ten $1 bills, taking back the counterfeit. What's the gist of the transactions that took place? The bookstore salesclerk was out $3 (= cost of the book), plus the $10 bills he gave to the clothing-store salesclerk. Altogether he lost $13. But only $10 was used in the transactions! What happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eth2 Posted June 19, 2014 Author Share Posted June 19, 2014 If two is company, and three is a crowd, what is four and five? four and five is nine..... We have a winner! Can't fool an engineer with non-numerical extraneous facts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Went over to Louisiana to pass some $25 bills. The clerk at the store took the 1st one with a smile from my $1 purchase & gave me 2 $12 bills in change. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerwoodKhorns Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 If two is company, and three is a crowd, what is four and five? four and five is nine..... We have a winner! Can't fool an engineer with non-numerical extraneous facts. I was going to answer four is 2 companies and five is a company and a crowd... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerwoodKhorns Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 (edited) Schu had it, just a small math error. This is a good puzzle. At first I thought that it was too easy, then looked at the real question. Agreed, great job Schu. Here is another one for Schu......Yesterday, the first customer in a bookstore gave the salesclerk a $10 bill for a $3 book. Having no change, the clerk took the $10 bill across the street to a clothing store to get it broken down into ten $1 bills. The clerk then gave the customer the book worth $3 and seven $1 bills as change. An hour later the clothing-store salesclerk brought back the $10 bill demanding her money back, claiming that the bill was counterfeit. To avoid quarreling, the bookstore salesclerk decided to give her ten $1 bills, taking back the counterfeit. What's the gist of the transactions that took place? The bookstore salesclerk was out $3 (= cost of the book), plus the $10 bills he gave to the clothing-store salesclerk. Altogether he lost $13. But only $10 was used in the transactions! What happened? The bookstore clerk gave the customer a book worth $3 and the clothing store clerk $10 and in return received 1 counterfeit $10 bill at the end. The reason that this went higher than the $10 in play was because there were 2 transactions going on at the same time. EDIT: I rushed through this because I am working. Bookstore clerk is out 1 book at $3 and $7 cash. Transaction 1: The bookstore clerk gave the customer a $3 book and $7 in genuine dollars for a counterfeit $10 bill. The $7 came from the clothing store, he still has $3 from the clothing store in the register and is out one $3 book. Transaction 2: He also gave the clothing store clerk a counterfeit $10 bill and received $10 in genuine money. Then when he refunded the money, he received $10 counterfeit back and paid $10 real back., $3 of which was money that he had previosuly received from the clothing store clerk. So that is $7 that he is out. So, he is only out $10, a $3 book and $7 to the clothing store clerk. Edited June 19, 2014 by tigerwoodKhorns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungkiman Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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