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- From: chris@questrel.com (Chris Cole)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: 27+2=30
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.180521.797@questrel.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:05:21 GMT
- References: <1k2sfkINN9pf@sipi.usc.edu>
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- In article <1k2sfkINN9pf@sipi.usc.edu> haddadi@sipi.usc.edu (Navid Haddadi) writes:
- >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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- From the Archive, the answer is:
- ********
- logic/29.s
- ********
- Each person paid $9, totalling $27. The manager has $25 and the bellboy $2.
- The bellboy's $2 should be added to the manager's $25 or subtracted from
- the tenants' $27, not added to the tenants' $27.
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