# Riddle For You!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/riddle-for-you/157743>\
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**Created:** [August 4, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/riddle-for-you/157743 "2005-08-04T00:20:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Seb\_Hughes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Seb\_Hughes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Seb_Hughes)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/riddle-for-you/157743/1 "2005-08-04T00:20:37Z")

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[left][size=2]Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go???[/size]  
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