Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Please help with this riddle

I was given a riddle without an answer and I cannot wrap my mind around this one. Please reply if you can figure it out:

3 men walk into a hotel, the guy at the front desk tells them the price is $30 for a room. The 3 men each chip in $10 and head to the room.

Later, the guy at the front desk realized the room was only $25 and sends the bellhop up to the room with the change.

The bellhop cannot figure how to split the $5 three ways so each gives each man $1 and keeps the extra $2 as a tip.

So.....if each man paid $9 and the bellhop kept the other $2.......what happened to the other $1. (9 X 3 = 27, 27 + 2 = 29)

This is bugging the hell out of me.......Please help!!

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