Keeping Track of Your Money
Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totaling $27. The bellboy has $2, totaling $29. Where is the remaining dollar?
Someone asked me this before the baseball game today claiming it was an “unsolvable problem”, and I very quickly shot that statement down by proving that there was no missing dollar. Just to give me a reason to post tomorrow I’ll hold off on giving the answer, but it’s really not all that hard when you sit and think it through.