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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
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Posted: Fri Feb  3 02:09:33 1984
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Organization: Heurikon Corp., Madison WI
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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
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