Riddle me this!! A Riddle for your Riddled Minds.

[the_clockwork]

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go?

 

[jnevin]

It was rolled up and in Phaded's nostril.

 

[samoth]

I'd put up a riddle, too, but people just Google them.

 

[the_clockwork]

I'd put up a riddle, too, but people just Google them.

True.. throw it up.. I'll try to solve it w/o cheating.. I like em.. my mind does get used hardly anymore since I've been outta school.. now it's just everyday things.

 

[samoth]

True.. throw it up.. I'll try to solve it w/o cheating.. I like em.. my mind does get used hardly anymore since I've been outta school.. now it's just everyday things.

*cough*

Okay, if you show your work.

 

[the_clockwork]

*cough*

Okay, if you show your work.

I have a bachelor in art... not science.. it can't be math, I'm an idiot with math

 

[jack sparrow]

It was rolled up and in Phaded's nostril.

lolllol

 

[samoth]

I have a bachelor in art... not science.. it can't be math, I'm an idiot with math

Umm... well, define "math".

 

[stilleto]

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go?

you subtract the $2, not add it.
making $25 in total paid for the room- which is correct. you can't subract the $3 they got back, and ADD the $2 the bellhop kept...

 

[jh1]

you subtract the $2, not add it.
making $25 in total paid for the room- which is correct. you can't subract the $3 they got back, and ADD the $2 the bellhop kept...

*BINGO*

they are trying to get you to add / subtract at the wrong time...