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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I read this earlier today and it's really starting to piddle me off now. On paper i'm meant to be very bright but i'm buggered if i can solve it! (missing something obvious??)

3 people book a hotel room, it costs £30 for the room so each person pays £10.00 and go to the room.

The receptionist realises it shouldve only been £25.00 not £30.00 so sends a £5.00 refund to the room with the bellboy.

Stood with the fiver the bellboy cant decide how to split it between them so gives each person £1.00 (3 x £1.00) and keeps £2.00 for himself as a tip.

This means that each person got a pound refund and only paid £9.00 for the room. 3 x £9.00 is £27, plus the £2 that the bellboy kept only comes to £29.00 when they started off with £30!

Wheres the other £1.00 gone???????????

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

3.33333 recurring?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"3.33333 recurring? "

Not legal tender but it may help me sleep easier

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the bell boy only kept £2 and gave them £3 change,with the £25 they had already paid thats £28 in total.so they paid £9.33p each and a penny left.i think?

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By *lscmnmytngMan
over a year ago

J13 of the M5

That old Chestnut!

The false logic comes in the fact that by getting £1 refund everyone in fact paid £9. They didnt. They actually paid £8.33 as that is the £25 split three ways.

Add to that the two pound tip to the Bell boy and that makes 66p each. Meaning everyone has then paid £9.

The change they then get of £1 equals the £10 they originally paid.

Nothing like creative accounting

Matt

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"the bell boy only kept £2 and gave them £3 change,with the £25 they had already paid thats £28 in total.so they paid £9.33p each and a penny left.i think?"

ahh, thats just made me think - if you say there's £25 in the hotel till, £1 for each man and £2 for the boy, that does make £30.00 - but i'm still confuddled, if they paid £10 then got £1.00 each back thats still the 3 x 9, plus 2 is 29.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"That old Chestnut!

The false logic comes in the fact that by getting £1 refund everyone in fact paid £9. They didnt. They actually paid £8.33 as that is the £25 split three ways.

Add to that the two pound tip to the Bell boy and that makes 66p each. Meaning everyone has then paid £9.

The change they then get of £1 equals the £10 they originally paid.

Nothing like creative accounting

Matt"

Dont you just hate a smart ****!!!

(with a huge thank you cuddle too!)

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By *lscmnmytngMan
over a year ago

J13 of the M5

Sorry to kill the thread stone dead.

Lol

Wiggling my smarta*$"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Sorry to kill the thread stone dead.

Lol

Wiggling my smarta*$""

you didn't kill it, point as covered earlier with the recurring 3.3

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nope, its the fact that you don't add the £27 and £2... the £2 is part of the £27 they paid! £27 plus the £3 they all got back as a refund makes £30, that is where all the money is. Simples!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz thinking that hard makes me sooooo sleepy definitely not a number person

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz thinking that hard makes me sooooo sleepy definitely not a number person "

its a bit too much "weight lifting" for the mind in the evenings...I agree lol

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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Why didn;t the bell boy just give them the £5 and let the guys sort it out

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

who cares about the £

3 people in the room sounds fun,

and who knows about the bellboy, could be even more fun.

maths :

3 people paid £9 each = £27

the hotel gets £25, the bellboy £2=£27

ps if i'd have had a £5 i'd have made someone a decent offer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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who cares about the £

3 people in the room sounds fun,

and who knows about the bellboy, could be even more fun.

maths :

3 people paid £9 each = £27

the hotel gets £25, the bellboy £2=£27

ps if i'd have had a £5 i'd have made someone a decent offer"

you did - and it was the best one so far - you might end up winning the prize you might not want lol

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford


"Why didn;t the bell boy just give them the £5 and let the guys sort it out"

who said the 3 people were guys? what sort of rooms do you normally frequent?

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