Who Knows The Answer

[Turk]

A party of three people go to a restaurant. The dinner is $10 a head so a total cost of $30, as they are regulars the manger gives them a discount of $5. The waiter decides it’s to hard to split the $5 so he keeps $2 and gives them back a $1 each. The meals are now $9 each therefore making it a total of $27, the waiter kept $2 giving a total of $29. Where did the $1 go?

[SPA50]

to the manager!

[kralster]

Well if he got 2 dollars and they each got 1.

1+1+1+2 = 5

tada!!

So they gave him 30 bucks he gave them a dollar each and kept two for himself.

[ctjet]

The answer to this puzzle is in the language used to pose the question. In reality, there is no "missing" $1. 3 x 9 is indeed 27 (a bit of linguistic misdirection), and the bell boy does indeed have $2, but adding them together has nothing to do with solving the problem, it just adds to the confusion (and makes the puzzle what it is).

Here's the real breakdown: The hotel has $25, the bell boy has $2, and each of the men have $1. So, 25+2+1+1+1=30, nothing missing.

[sh@un]

so it's all wrapped up in a neat little package then!!! /homer

[sh@un]

it's bs anyway- if the bill was discounted to $25, each person would need to chip in $8.333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333......and so on and so on

[kralster]

So i got it right then.

[Turk]

The answer to this puzzle is in the language used to pose the question. In reality, there is no "missing" $1. 3 x 9 is indeed 27 (a bit of linguistic misdirection), and the bell boy does indeed have $2, but adding them together has nothing to do with solving the problem, it just adds to the confusion (and makes the puzzle what it is).

Here's the real breakdown: The hotel has $25, the bell boy has $2, and each of the men have $1. So, 25+2+1+1+1=30, nothing missing.

correctomondo the answer is in the wording

[silver gts-t]

so is this game only out on PS3?

[Turk]

yeah Only on PS3, prostreet was released yesterday has anybody bought it and is it worth buying PS3 JBHIFI had it for $79, Im going to get it anyway but would appreciate feedback

can i jump topics? or is that bad!

[ABuSD]

Well if u go thirds with 2 friends and then get a $10 discount, but the seller gets a commision of $6 then gives $1 of that to his manager, how much do you and your friends have to pay each? JK

But seriously, make sure u work em down on the price, thats what makes JB so great!

IMO grab it from the Video Shop n test it b4 u n your 2 mates lash out $21 each!!

I prefer to play it safe n spend a few bucks, make sure its good then lash out for full price.

(Yes im a fish @ss, but its saved me quite a bit of cash on sh!t games in the past)

Edited November 23, 2007 by ABuSD

[Gts-t]

the "missing" $1 is in the $25 bill

anyone got harder ones?

Edited November 24, 2007 by 2630GTS

[RusH_]

mathematical trickery i say, i first heard this as a 3 ppl who got a hotel room, lool