Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags 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 Article-I.D.: pucc-i.177 Posted: Fri Feb 3 10:00:11 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 05:29:04 EST References: <1689@utcsstat.UUCP>, <1702@utcsstat.UUCP> <136@ames-lm.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 19 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. -- Dave Seaman ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags "Against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."