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Originally posted by Eddie@Jan 31 2005, 09:40 PM
Ok, 3 men walk into a hotel and to save money, share a room.
The clerk tells them the rooms 30 bucks and each man gives the clerk a 10.
A bell man takes them to the room. When the bell man returns to the desk, the clerk see's he has made a mistake and the rooms not 30 but 26 so he gives the bellman the 4 bucks to take back to the men.
One his way up to the room, the bellman realizes he can't divided the 4 bucks into the 3 men evenly, so he puts a buck in his back pocket. when he get to the room he gives each man back 1 dollar.
Now, each man paid 10 dollars, and each man got back 1 dollar, so, 9 times 3 is 27 PLUS the dollar in the bellmans pocket is 28.... wheres the other 2 dollars?
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Its a question of the real cost per room, which is a repeating decimal after the integer. when you take the real cost of eah room, it isnt nine dollars.
the answer is there is no extra dollar..
when the innkeeper changed the price he changed the entire equation.