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Who Can Help Unravel This Puzzle? by busuyem: 9:44pm On Nov 23, 2014
Here's the puzzle:
"Three guests check into a hotel room.
The front desk officer says the bill is
N30,000, so each guest pays N10,000.
Later the front desk officer realizes the
bill should only be N25,000. To fix this, he gives the attendant N5,000
to return to the guests. On the way to the
room, the attendant realizes that he
cannot divide the money equally. Since
the guests didn't know the total of the
revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest N1,000 and keep N2,000
as a tip for himself. Each guest got N1,000
back: so now each
guest only paid N9,000; bringing the total
paid to N27,000. The attendant has
N2,000. And N27,000 + N2,000 = N29,000 so, if the guests originally handed over
N30,000, what happened to the
remaining N1,000?"
Re: Who Can Help Unravel This Puzzle? by UniqueGem(m): 9:58pm On Nov 23, 2014
Since the revised amount the three men paid was #27,000, which they paid as 25,000 for the three separate hotel rooms, and 2,000 went to the attendant. So there's no money left na..
(3*9,000=27,000)+returned 3k=30k. The 2k the attendant took is sara money i think.
Re: Who Can Help Unravel This Puzzle? by stellytwinkle(f): 11:18pm On Jul 03, 2015
Oya come and solve the puzzle.

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