I know I shouldn't have started this dumb thread, please forgive me all. It's very childish.

So many dudes on this section are fond of making noise about logical thinking, and how you need it if you really want to be a freaky programmer, so here it is

I have seen this somewhere and was just about ready to give an answer until I saw the above. I personally consider this an insult to all who have said something about logical thinking and will personally not answer the question.

Others are free to do so but I won't. I am happy that at least you said it might sound childish, cos it really does.

Nee. I don see this question before it is somehow childish and the writer did a mistake and mislead the readers with the calculations. And for your topic and question they both sounds childish.

@yawa
I'm sorry about that remark.

Yeah, I agree, it sounds childish, I actually stated this at the beginning of the post.

So, please just contribute, I've been dying to get ideas on that.

:-x

@yawa-ti-de

don't mind him, he is a 'kid' seeking "knowledge".

Let's not look at is words and answer the question

firstly: they each paid $10 for a $30 worth room. correct

secondly: the price of the room reduce to $25 and the cleck took $2 from there bills and gave them $1 each.correct

the mistake arose from is calculations.
Initially if the guys  had met the manager with the clerk they would would have a bill of  $25 to pay and 2 of the guys would have paid $8.33 while the other guy left would have $8.34 to pay.deducting this money from there excess bill which is $10. 2 guys paid in excess  $1.67 and the third paid $1.66 in excess.The clerk then gave the three guys $3 and took $2 alway.but clerk forgot that initially two of the guys should have given him $8.33 and the third $8.34 but cleck overlook the $0.33 {8.33 ==> 8} the two guys must have paid and $0.34 {8.34 ==> 8} the third must have paid and round it off as 8 and add the $1 each to the $8 which is not correct and he sum total as $9*3 and add $2 he took which equals $29. And summing the error in the calculation we have 0.33 + 0.33 + 0.34 = 1

DO YOU GET IT NOW KIDDO     

"logical thinkers" sounds like tautology 2 me. i would hope that most thinkers are logical, but then what do i know. apparently some thinkers are illogical in their reasoning.

@logica

nice point

@logica, hence your NL username. If you didn't surface here, I would have been surprised

@rancetech, I accept your apology.

To Answer the question:
Simple - it's in the bell hop's pocket

But ah! If it is that simple to answer, then it isn't so simple right? Nothing is at it seems. Let me take a crack at it. To me, it is more about how you think and not whether you get the answer correct. In fact, this would make a good interview question. He he, na so bobos go dey sweat. "I thought I was here for a JAVA position. Dis one wey dem dey ask me question about bell hop, na wa o!" :

The room initially cost $30 so they paid $10 each. Boss says room is actually $25. Therein lies the trick party of the question. They get $1 each back from the mgr so it is true that they paid $9 each but a ha! Isn't there a law out there that say matter can neither be destroyed more created but simply transferred? The money is still in existence. Other than being in the hop's pocket (obviously), the 3 guys paid $25 for the room, got $3 back as a discount and $2 is "stolen" by the hop. So you have:
$25 + $3 + $2 = $30.

The riddle is definitely worded wrongly. How would I phrase it? I don't even know myself, he he.

@jacob05
That's impressive, but I'm not a kid, you can tell from my posts and written english. I'm a certified programmer. All I wanted was for a little game amongst ourselves. It's just childish, that's all. Let it die here, ok?

Great! That explains it all, the question is really logical, everybody will definitely come up with different answers. That's what I wanted initially but I guess I didn't put it in the right format.