Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site heurikon.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!uwvax!heurikon!jeff From: jeff@heurikon.UUCP Newsgroups: net.puzzle Subject: Re: Where did the dollar go? (*The solution*) Message-ID: <192@heurikon.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 02:09:33 EST Article-I.D.: heurikon.192 Posted: Fri Feb 3 02:09:33 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 03:49:53 EST References: <136@ames-lm.UUCP> Organization: Heurikon Corp., Madison WI Lines: 14 The dollar didn't go anywhere. The wording of the problem simply coerces the reader into thinking he should take three times nine and the *add* the two dollars and try to get $30. The mathematics should go like this: multiply three times nine and *subtract* the two dollars, trying to get $25, which you do. But it's a teaser, all right! The three each paid (net) $9.00, for a total of $27.00 The bellboy got $2.00 out of the $27.00 The hotel got the difference, $25.00 -- /"""\ Jeffrey Mattox, Heurikon Corp, Madison, WI |O.O| {harpo, hao, philabs}!seismo!uwvax!heurikon!jeff (news & mail) \_=_/ ihnp4!heurikon!jeff (mail - fast)