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- From: aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)
- Subject: Re: 27+2=30
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.002951.19090@freenet.carleton.ca>
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- Reply-To: aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:29:51 GMT
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- In a previous article, haddadi@sipi.usc.edu (Navid Haddadi) says:
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- >Here is a very old puzzle:
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- Agreed.
-
- >Three men rent a room for $30. The inn keeper decides that he has
- >over charged them and gives the bellboy $5 to give back to the men.
- >The bellboy decides to keep $2 and give each man $1.
- >So, each man has paid $9 (3x9=27) plus the $2 that the boy kept.
- >Hence, 27+2=30.
- >
- >It is actually more funny than silly!
-
- Further, it's more flawed than funny.
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- You're treating the $2 as if it magically appeared in the bellhop's
- grimy little hand. Recall that she got the money from the innkeeper,
- who got the money from the guests.
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- Thus each guest contributed $9, including one third of the $25 that the
- innkeeper kept ($8 1/3 each) and one third of the $2 that the short-timer
- bellhop kept ($0 2/3 each). No biggie.
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