Ah, the old ones are the best ones ... so off we go! - Three travelling salesmen rent a hotel room for the night and pay €30 at reception for it. They go up to the room and after a couple of minutes the porter brings up their bags and hands them back €5 because the receptionist just remembered that the hotel was giving a discount on the room that night. So the three salesmen decide to each keep €1 of the €5 and to give the porter a €2 tip. A little later they decide to tally up their expenses for the weekend and come across a strange anomaly: Each one of them had originally paid €10 (towards the initial €30), then each one got back €1 which meant that they'd paid €9 apiece for the room. Then they gave the porter a €2 tip. That is, 3 by €9 which equals €27 plus the €2 tip which makes €29. So where on earth did the other buck go!? Gaaaaaaddddd!
My brain earlier, trying to figure this riddle!
You're looking at it all the wrong way guvnor. Sticking the 2 quid in where it 'as no business. Stick to solving crimes and leave it out with the numbers games.
ReplyDeleteAh ha - yeah knew you'd figure it out! But it's amazing how ye can throw someone by the way you phrase the problem!
ReplyDelete