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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 2:06:39 GMT
Three people check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 as a tip for himself. Each guest got $1 back, so now each guest only paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 + $2 = $29 so, if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
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Post by kls on Jan 25, 2018 1:44:35 GMT
Three people check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 as a tip for himself. Each guest got $1 back, so now each guest only paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 + $2 = $29 so, if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1? There isn't a missing dollar The original 30 is accounted for by adding up the hotel keeping 25 dollars, the men getting 3 dollars and be bellhop getting 2 dollars. The men did pay 27 dollars. 25 went to the hotel and 2 to the bellhop. |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 25, 2018 20:06:07 GMT
This is the 'confuser' statement that tries to bullshit the listener because it tries to equate on of the transactions to the final balances, which does not make sense. Guests paid 27, of which hotel has 25 and bellhop has 2. There is no missing dollar. Hotel has 25 Guests have 3 Bellhop has 2 Total = 30, as was originally handed over. |
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Post by kls on Jan 26, 2018 1:57:57 GMT
This is the 'confuser' statement that tries to bullshit the listener because it tries to equate on of the transactions to the final balances, which does not make sense. Guests paid 27, of which hotel has 25 and bellhop has 2. There is no missing dollar. Hotel has 25 Guests have 3 Bellhop has 2 Total = 30, as was originally handed over. Right. If you do anything with the 27 and 2 it would be a subtraction situation, not addition 27 (what the guests paid for the room) take away 2 (in bellhop's pocket) =25 (which matches what the hotel has and what the room actually cost). |
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The problem starts with the claim, βeach guest only paid $9β.
They didnβt. They each got one dollar back, true, but prior to that, each guest had paid $8.33 ($25 divided by 3). It assumes that before the reimbursement of their dollar, theyβd paid ten dollars each, which they didβbut that all changes once you factor in the bellhop pocketed $2 from the total amount.
You disregard the three extra dollars and divide $25 by 3, which is $8.33(3333..recurring). Then you add the individual dollars on to the individual amountsβeach guestβs amount, therefore, ends up being $9.33 each.
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Post by Lilith on Feb 22, 2018 14:13:46 GMT
The problem starts with the claim, βeach guest only paid $9β. They didnβt. They each got one dollar back, true, but prior to that, each guest had paid $8.33 ($25 divided by 3). It assumes that before the reimbursement of their dollar, theyβd paid ten dollars each, which they didβbut that all changes once you factor in the bellhop pocketed $2 from the total amount. You disregard the three extra dollars and divide $25 by 3, which is $8.33(3333..recurring). Then you add the individual dollars on to the individual amountsβeach guestβs amount, therefore, ends up being $9.33 each.  |
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Post by kls on Mar 8, 2018 10:51:45 GMT
The problem starts with the claim, βeach guest only paid $9β. They didnβt. They each got one dollar back, true, but prior to that, each guest had paid $8.33 ($25 divided by 3). It assumes that before the reimbursement of their dollar, theyβd paid ten dollars each, which they didβbut that all changes once you factor in the bellhop pocketed $2 from the total amount. You disregard the three extra dollars and divide $25 by 3, which is $8.33(3333..recurring). Then you add the individual dollars on to the individual amountsβeach guestβs amount, therefore, ends up being $9.33 each. They did pay 9 dollars. 10 (what they each handed to the hotel clerk) minus the 1 they each got back is 9. That will not change no matter what proportion of the 9 went to the hotel and what proportion was kept by the bellhop. 8.33 rounded to the closest penny is what they should have each paid to the hotel for the room to make 25. Agreed. But you wouldn't add what the bellhop gave back to find out what they ended up paying. You'd add what he kept. He pocketed 2 dollars, not 3. Split the 2 the bellhop pocketed 3 ways and that's .67 to the closet penny. Add it together it's 9 dollars. |
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Post by peachy on Mar 8, 2018 21:44:27 GMT
Three people check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 as a tip for himself. Each guest got $1 back, so now each guest only paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 + $2 = $29 so, if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1? Who cares? |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Mar 18, 2018 14:15:37 GMT
Three people check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 as a tip for himself. Each guest got $1 back, so now each guest only paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 + $2 = $29 so, if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1? Who cares? I do. |
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Post by Lilith on Mar 18, 2018 16:30:14 GMT
It's a good quality to have. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2018 16:39:14 GMT
Three people check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 as a tip for himself. Each guest got $1 back, so now each guest only paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 + $2 = $29 so, if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1? Who cares? People who like to engage their brains. |
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