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Date Posted: 20:37:46 09/15/03 Mon
Author: jamison
Subject: Re: Riddle Time.
In reply to: Neil 's message, "Riddle Time." on 19:43:28 09/15/03 Mon

lol.. neil, is this for a math class or something? the extra dollar was spent on the room, split between the three old ladies. if they were supposed to pay 25 dollars for the room, then that means they each paid about $8.33. and so that's $25 of the dollars, plus the 2 from the bell boy or whatever, plus a dollar each to each lady making the original $30 dollars. so they didn't spend 9 dollars each on the room, they only spent $8.33and a third. lol... whatever...
~jamison

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[> [> Oops -- Neil Self, 21:14:37 09/15/03 Mon

Sorry James, you got it wrong. I misinterpreted your answer. Try again!

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[> [> Re: Riddle Time. -- adeline, 22:21:10 09/15/03 Mon

hmmmm jamison let me see if i can clear this one up: the ladies paid 27$. 2 of that 27 dollars went to the bell-boy, and 25 went to the hotel and the extra 3 went back to the ladies. so the hotel has 25$, the bell boy has 2$ and the ladies have 3$. neil confused it by saying that the ladies paid 27 (2 of which went the bell boy) and the bell boy got 2$, so you included the bellboy robbery twice.....ok i dont know if that makes sense to anybody at all...but it makes sense in my head...and its the right answer...soooo yea! have fun trying to figure out what i said, james sure had a hard time

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[> [> [> Re: Riddle Time. -- Neil, 19:58:23 09/16/03 Tue

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neil confused it by saying that the ladies paid 27
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The ladies did indeed pay 27 dollars. There's really no way to refute the statement that "They originally payed 30. They got back 3. Therefore they payed 27."

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[> [> [> [> Re: Riddle Time. -- adeline, 15:50:58 09/17/03 Wed

haha you didnt read my whole sentence. i said "neil confused it by saying that the ladies paid 27 (something went in parentheses) AND the bellboy got 2." but the ladies paid 27 which includes what the bellboy got.

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[> [> Re: Riddle Time. -- scott, 09:17:54 09/26/03 Fri

ok neil...here is what it is...thi is what we have all been saying all along!

The facts in this riddle are clear: There is an initial $30 charge. It should have been $25, so $5 must be returned and accounted for. $3 is given to the 3 friends, $2 is kept by the bellhop - there you have the $5. The trick to this riddle is that the addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times to misdirect your thinking - and quite successfully for most. Each of the 3 friends did indeed pay $9, not $10, and as far as the friends are concerned, they paid $27 for the night. But we know that the clerk will tell us that they were charged only $25 and when you add the $3 returned with the $2 kept by the bellhop, you come up with $30.

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