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barkei | 09:15 Mon 30th Jun 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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3 men go into a hotel. the man behind the desk said the room is �30.00 so each man paid �10.00 and went to the room.
a while later the man behind the desk realized the room was only �25.00 so he sent the bellboy to the 3 guys' room with �5.00
on the way the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split �5.00 evenly between 3 men, so he gave each man a �1.00 and kept the other �2.00 for himself.
this meant that the 3 men each paid �9.00 for the room, which is a total of �27.00, add the �2.00 that the bellboy kept = �29.00
where is the other pound?
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Answered many times. The question is misleading. There is no other pound.

The men have paid �27 (not �30) because they got �3 back.

�25 in the till + �2 in the bell-boy's pocket = �27

�27 = �27. Books balance - nothing missing.
gosh I wish I had a pound for each time I've heard that one explained in one form or another!
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