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Brain Teaser - someone explain
Hi all received this email, can someone explain...
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> Ok - someone please tell me the answer before it
> drives me insane !!
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> >>3 men go into a motel. The desk clerk said the
> room was
> >>$30, so each man paid $10 and went to the room.
> >>A while later,the desk clerk realized the room was
> >>only $25, so he sent the bellboy to the 3 guys'
> >>room with $5.
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> >>On the way, the bellboy couldn't figure out how
> >>to split $5 evenly between 3 men, so he gave
> >>each man $1 and kept the other $2 for himself.
> >>This meant that the 3 men each paid $9 for the
> room,
> >>which is a total of $27.
> >>Add to that the $2 the bellboy kept and the total
> >>is $29.
> >>Where is the other dollar?

Stu2000

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Thread Brain Teaser - someone explain stu2000 7132 Jan 17, 2003, 7:50 PM
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