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- From: haddadi@sipi.usc.edu (Navid Haddadi)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: 27+2=30
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 00:24:20 -0800
- Organization: USC, LA, CA
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- Here is a very old puzzle:
- Three men rent a room for $30. The inn keeper decides that he has
- over charged them and gives the bellboy $5 to give back to the men.
- The bellboy decides to keep $2 and give each man $1.
- So, each man has paid $9 (3x9=27) plus the $2 that the boy kept.
- Hence, 27+2=30.
-
- It is actually more funny than silly!
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