The Missing Dollar
Three cowboys went into a hotel and asked for a room. The clerk
said
they had only one room left and it would $30.00. So each man handed
over
$10.00 a piece for a total of $30.00.
When they went upstairs, the clerk realized he overcharged them
because
it was not a $30.00 room, it was only a $25.00 room. The clerk
called
the bellboy over and explained how he overcharged the three cowboys
and instructed the bellboy to take five $1.00 bills up to the
three cowboys' room.
On the way up, the bellboy decided he did not know how to divide the
$5.00 by three. So, he put $2.00 in his pocket and proceeded to the
room where
he handed each cowboy a $1.00 bill back, so they then each had paid
only $9.00 a piece for the room.
Well then, $9.00 times three men means that they paid only $9 x 3=$27.00.
So their $27.00 plus the $2.00 in the bellboys pocket equals $29.00.
Where is the other dollar?!
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business
on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment
he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming,
with a goal in front and not behind... George Bernard Shaw,
Playwright, 1856-1950