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Ashlee:
I got a email, asking for this thread to become a Joke & Riddle thread. So I change it. Because riddles are kind of likes jokes. So put your riddles here & Jokes ^_^

New Rules
Ok, to make this fair for every one. Put your answers for the Riddles in a spoiler. It will be a much better way for views to read the riddles and not worry about seeing or reading the answer.

[spoiler ] put your answer here [/ spoiler]
*Remove the spaces in the spoiler

kudan:
Three man stay at a hotel for the night. The innkeeper charges $30 per room per night. The men rent one room; each pays $10. The hotel porter leads the man to their room. Later, the innkeeper discovers he has overcharged the men and asks the porter to return $5 to them. On the way upsairs, the porter realises that $5 can't be spilt evenly among three men, so he decides to keep $2 for himself and return $1 to each man.
At this point, the three men have paid $9 each, totalling $27 and the porter has $2, which adds up to $29.
Where did the 30th dollar go?
Show contentThe mistake is in how the $30 is accounted for. The $2 that the porter has is part of the $27 the men have paid. A correct accounting of the money is that the $27 was paid and $3 has not, totalling $30.

monkey:

--- Quote from: kudan on May 11 2006, 11:52 pm ---Three man stay at a hotel for the night. The innkeeper charges $30 per room per night. The men rent one room; each pays $10. The hotel porter leads the man to their room. Later, the innkeeper discovers he has overcharged the men and asks the porter to return $5 to them. On the way upsairs, the porter realises that $5 can't be spilt evenly among three men, so he decides to keep $2 for himself and return $1 to each man.
At this point, the three men have paid $9 each, totalling $27 and the porter has $2, which adds up to $29.
Where did the 30th dollar go?
Show contentThe mistake is in how the $30 is accounted for. The $2 that the porter has is part of the $27 the men have paid. A correct accounting of the money is that the $27 was paid and $3 has not, totalling $30.

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Show contentThat's actually incorrect.
5$ was taken out of 30$. 30-5=25
The 5 dollars was split into 5 seperately
each man given 1$ making that 3. 25+3=28.
The 2$ the porter kep makes that 30. 28+2=30.
not all 3 men have been given back what they paid for.
This riddle would work if it the three men were paid back only 0.67$.. but it is not.The person who came up with that I assume was just bad with math.

kudan:

--- Quote from: VexNet on May 12 2006, 12:20 am ---Show contentThat's actually incorrect.
5$ was taken out of 30$. 30-5=25
The 5 dollars was split into 5 seperately
each man given 1$ making that 3. 25+3=28.
The 2$ the porter kep makes that 30. 28+2=30.
not all 3 men have been given back what they paid for.
This riddle would work if it the three men were paid back only 0.67$.. but it is not.The person who came up with that I assume was just bad with math.

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I guess so... But it came from a book called "1000 of the World's Greatest Brainbusters" 0.o (Irony?)

Ashlee:

--- Quote from: VexNet on May 12 2006, 12:20 am ---Show contentThat's actually incorrect.
5$ was taken out of 30$. 30-5=25
The 5 dollars was split into 5 seperately
each man given 1$ making that 3. 25+3=28.
The 2$ the porter kep makes that 30. 28+2=30.
not all 3 men have been given back what they paid for.
This riddle would work if it the three men were paid back only 0.67$.. but it is not.The person who came up with that I assume was just bad with math.

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that is true


--- Quote from: kudan on May 12 2006, 01:36 am ---I guess so... But it came from a book called "1000 of the World's Greatest Brainbusters" 0.o (Irony?)

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I remember that book. Its one of my teacher's favorites

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