Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ames-lm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!ames-lm!op From: op@ames-lm.UUCP (Operations) Newsgroups: net.puzzle Subject: Where did the dollar go? Message-ID: <136@ames-lm.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 22:10:29 EST Article-I.D.: ames-lm.136 Posted: Tue Jan 31 22:10:29 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 12:51:42 EST References: <1689@utcsstat.UUCP>, <1702@utcsstat.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 19 I don't know if this one was ever posted since I'm relatively new to the net but here it goes. By the way, I don't know the answer and would appreciate it if someone out there does. Three people go to a hotel for the night. The guy at the desk tells them that it will be $30 for the night. So each of them give the clerk $10 and they go up to their room. The clerk then realizes that it should have been $25 for the night not $30 and gives the bellboy $5 to take up the room. The bellboy decides that he will give each of them $1 and keep $2 for himself. So they actually paid $9 each and the bellboy kept $2 totaling to $29. What happened to the missing dollar? Michael Lee NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA