Mopar Muscle Association UK

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 change.

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?

Is this how the credit crunch came about, only with bigger numbers?

If the rooms were upstairs, maybe he lost a pound running up the stairs!

Well this did make me think quite hard!!
My answer would be, yeah, the three guys paid a total of £27 for a £25 room. 27-25 =2, which is the tip that the bellboy got, right?
So it all adds up.

they paid £10 each

then it went down to £8.33 each

so they needed £1.66 back each but only got £1.00

so they paid £9.33 each which is £27.99

Bellboy pocketed £.66p of each man for a total of £1.98

£27.99 + £1.98 = £30.00

well it does if you add in more decimal points

forget that, it adds up but it's wrong, should have added .666 to the total cost not the £1 DUH

Lookin @ it this way is a mathmatical error...........if you work it out any other way it adds up.

Hey Neil , would'nt it have been easier to work out the cost of those rods?

Im with Gavin on this one ....made my brain work then

Good one Dave, this has had me going for a while...

You don't add the £2 to the £27 they paid, you take it away because it's part of the £27!

Very good.

Oh yeh, that's what Gavin meant.

The answer is (and I had to ask wor lass 'cos she is the tax man and nowt gets past her in these matters) that they have not paid £9 each. They have all actually paid £9 + a third of £2 each. Now it ads up.

So Wil (I think) eventually got the answer right.

Dave wrote:The answer is (and I had to ask wor lass 'cos she is the tax man and nowt gets past her in these matters) that they have not paid £9 each. They have all actually paid £9 + a third of £2 each. Now it ads up.

I don't think that's right Dave, they have paid £9 each because they collectively gave £30 and received £3 back. The confusion comes where you add £2 to the £27 they paid, where the £2 was part of that £27 already. The £27 consists of the £25 plus the £2, therefore you shouldn't add £2 to it.

Blimey, don't ask us any riddles!

And if they'd paid £9 plus a third of £2 each that would still come to £29!

(£9 + £0.66) x 3 = £29.

I agree the £2 is part of the £27, not £30. But did they get back the 2.5% VAT rate cut??