The Missing Dollar
Time for a new puzzler.
Here we go.
Three guys check into a motel in the middle of nowhere. They are running from the law and they have to lay low for a night.
They are really strapped for cash so they decide to share one room. The approach the front desk clerk and he tells them that one room will be $30. This is the cheapest motel ever.
So, they each give the clerk $10 and then they go to the room.
After they leave, the clerk realizes that he overcharged them. They were having a special on rooms, and the price was supposed to be $25, not $30. So, he gives the bellboy $5 and asks him to return this to the three guys, since he overcharged them.
So the bellboy takes the $5, and as he is heading to the room, he thinks to himself, "Well, there are three guys, and $5. They won't be able to split this evenly, so I'm going to keep $2, and give them $3." So that's what he does.
He says to them, "Here's $3. You were overcharged for the room." And they say, "Thank you very much." He leaves having pocketed $2.
So here is the question.
They each spent $10 to start off with. Then they each get back $1. So they each spent $9 on the room. And 9 times 3 is 27. Plus the $2 that the bellboy stole. That all equals $29.
So, what happened to the other dollar? Since they originally spent $30?
Good luck.
