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From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: Where did the dollar go?
Message-ID: <177@pucc-i>
Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 10:00:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  3 10:00:11 1984
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If your objective is to account for the original $30, then it's

	Paid for the room	$25
	Bellboy's "tip"		  2
	Change			  3
	---------------------------
	TOTAL			$30

Note that the bellboy's $2 is part of the $27 which you say they paid for
the room.  In order to get $29, you counted the bellboy's $2 twice and
you failed to count the change at all.

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Dave Seaman
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"Against people who give vent to their loquacity 
by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."