A 3-bed hotel room costs $30 per nite. Three men each pays $10 to share the room. The hotel boss decides to refund $5 as discount. The hotel clerk pockets $2, return each man only $1.
Each man nett pays $10 - $1 =$9
The room costs the 3 men $9 x3 = $ 27
plus $ 2 pocketed by clerk
Total = $ 29
Where is the missing $ 1 (= $30 - $29 )?
I spent hours trying to solve this one many years ago - but it was then '3 men went into a restaurant for a meal…… I did eventually understand. How about this one -
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