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Subject: Where did the dollar go?
Message-ID: <136@ames-lm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 22:10:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 31 22:10:29 1984
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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