solve the mystery #6
By brenduh
@brenduh (79)
United States
November 4, 2006 2:53pm CST
Three friends went to a hotel and drew up a bill of $75/-
Each contributed $25/- towards this and the waiter took the bill to the cashier.
For some reason unknown, our dear friend the cashier decided to give them a discount and asked the waiter to return $5/-.
Now the waiter was confused. He thought, “How to distribute $5 among 3 persons? ”
So he kept $2 in his pocket & gave one dollar to each one of the 3 persons.
That brings us to the mystery.
Initially each one had contributed $25. And each received one dollar making their contribution $24.
Thus, all contributed Rs 24 — that is 24×3=72 and 2 dollars in the waiters pocket.
The total becomes 74. But they had paid $75.
Where is the missing dollar?
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3 responses
@camaroz28 (326)
• Italy
4 Nov 06
They had paid $75 - $3 discount = $72 = $24 x 3. There is no missing dollar.
@camaroz28 (326)
• Italy
4 Nov 06
In other words:
a paid 24
b paid 24
c paid 24
d took 2
the cash is 24+24+24-2 = 70
It's 72-2, not 72+2
@Donnyboy8 (786)
• United States
4 Nov 06
$5 was taken out of the $75 making $70 which makes $23.33333 per person + the $1 = $24.333333 * 3 = $73 and $2 for the waiter
