What The Fuck.
Three guys go in to a hotel, each with $10 in his pocket. They book one room at $30 a night. A short while later, a fax from headquarters directs the hotel to charge $25 a night. So the receptionist gives the bellhop $5 to take to the three guys sharing a room. Since the bellhop never got a tip from them, and because he cant split the $5 three ways, he decides to pocket $2 and give them each $1 back. So each of the guys now has spent $9, and the bellhop has $2, for a total of $29. Wheres the extra dollar?
-Frank Morgan, The Math Chat Book
Goddamnit. When you figure it out, you wonder how you could have been fooled in the first damn place.
Three guys go in to a hotel, each with $10 in his pocket. They book one room at $30 a night. A short while later, a fax from headquarters directs the hotel to charge $25 a night. So the receptionist gives the bellhop $5 to take to the three guys sharing a room. Since the bellhop never got a tip from them, and because he cant split the $5 three ways, he decides to pocket $2 and give them each $1 back. So each of the guys now has spent $9, and the bellhop has $2, for a total of $29. Wheres the extra dollar?
-Frank Morgan, The Math Chat Book
Goddamnit. When you figure it out, you wonder how you could have been fooled in the first damn place.
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[Edited on Jan 29, 2006 12:05PM]
25 for the room + 2 tip=27. 27+ 1x(3 people)=30 total.