This will Mess With Your Head.
 

Been posted before but for those who havent seen it.

3 men go into a motel. The man behind the desk said the room is $30, so
each man paid $10 and went to the room.
A while later the man behind the desk realized the room was only $25, so he sent the bellboy to the 3 guys' room with $5. On the way the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split $5 evenly between 3 men, so he gave each man a $1 and kept the other $2 for himself.
This meant that the 3 men each paid $9 for the room, which is a total of $27, add the $2 that the bellboy kept = $29. Where is the other dollar?

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does george best have it?

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There has to be a way to PROFIT from this wierdness.......

Probably involved the internet.......

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It all to do with the way we count up and down

If you try the same thing using actual object eg paperclips to represent each pound you will see what I mean

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Men have £3
Bellboy has £2
Hotel has £25.
It all adds up. You're not balancing it properly.

Or to put it another way, the £2 is already accounted for in the 3 x £9 that the men have paid, the remaining £3 is in the men's pockets.

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its probaly down the back of the sofa

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No, that don't work ...... I only have 8 paperclips.

Lets be sensible now.

What motel / hotel would take a currency of paperclips?

Where can I find one?

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Yep......

Hold out your hands and count your fingers and thumbs downwards from 10.

So, on the first hand you go..............10, 9, 8, 7, 6. Than add on the 5 from the other hand and you have 11 :D

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or my answer.

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my brother-in-law, who works at the Nigerian Finance Ministry, would like to offer you the opportunity to help him recover the $1 ...

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Didn't mess with mine! :smt019

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is that cos you didnt understand? hmm? is it?


;)

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Nah! I just ain't got one!

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Are all of them boys?

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Why, on first impressions, did I look at that bunny and believe it to be Scottish?

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^ Scotch pancake?

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Yep, I guess half of them are boys and so is the other half.

That or one is a hermaphrodite.

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I blame the 0 ! It's all the 0's fault

Pete

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Sounds like you're arguing about nothing.

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its like he's never been away

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yeah all boys. not the toughest one in the world but i couldnt remember any others off the top of my head. Still scrambled form the $30 one. :confused:

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^ I explained it in post #5.

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Don't talk about my family...

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Did I spoil it by explaining how it works?

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Viney made more sense than you.
Or to put it another way I had it worked out til you tried to mess with my head.:lol:

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He might have made more sense, but I was mathematically correct.

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I know something similar with a sultan and horses and three sons and he leaves in his will different fractions of his 17 horses to each son.. which doeant work out til they go o see the wise man- he lends them a orse- the frations then work out and they all have their horses and the wise man has his left over !!!>. maths is fun !!!

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Bodmas

Thats An Old One