Anomaly???

[BETO74 0]

Anomaly???

Three men rented a hotel room, the room cost $30 divided by three is $10 a piece, the manager of the hotel felt he was overcharging the three men and decided to sent the bell boy with $5.00 back, so the cost of the room was $25. The bell boy decided on his way to the room to keep $2 to make it even so each of the three guest gets $1 back. So they pay $9x3guest = $27 plus $2 the bell boy kept $29…………………so where is the other dollar????

anyone

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[2fat2fly 0]

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[BlueEyedMonster 0]

Hotel manager still has it

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So they pay $9x3guest = $27 plus $2 the bell boy kept $29…………………so where is the other dollar????

anyone

Actually they paid 10 a guest, not 9. Your math is off dude.

[pleifer 0]

Faulty logic

$30 to start... bell boy takes 5 to give back... keeps two and give 3 back... so it is

30-3 (refund)- 2 (bell boy taketh)= $25

NOT

30-3+2=29

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[kingbunky 3]

this one bugged me for a long time. if you look at where all the money is you get the correct total

hotel $25
bellhop $2
guests $3
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total $30

what you did is subtract the $3 the guests got back, then added the $2 from the bellboy back on.

edited to add, doh! i type too slow!

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[ccowden 0]

The room didn't cost $27, it cost $25 leaving $5 in change to split back amongst the 3 guys. But since the bellboy wanted to keep some, you are now splitting the $5 four ways, which works out to $1.25 each. If he gives back $1 to each of the three guys, he gets his $1.25 plus their .25 each equalling $2.

$25 for the room, $5 in change= $30 no matter how you slice it.

[BETO74 0]

They pay $10 x 3 = 30 then the hotel manager sents back $5... right........... the bell boy kepts $2 and give back $3 so each of the 3 men paid $9 times 3 men equal $27 plus $2 the bell boy kept $29

get it?????

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[happythoughts 0]

If someone tells you, "A penny for your thoughts...", and you put in your "two cents worth", then someone is skimming a cent out of the middle.

[BETO74 0]

so... if the guest got back a dollar each did the hotel cost $9 a piece x 3 = 27??? instead of $10 each x 3 = $30

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[airdweller 0]

It's along the same line as counting to five with your first hand and counting backwards to 6 with your second hand and then adding the two numbers to get to 11 instead of 10

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[shropshire 0]

It's not an anolamly, It's all down to the order of precedence of maths operators...

+ is done before -
usually, to ensure that this happens in the order required you can add brackets (stuff in brackest done first).

30 - (3+2) = 25

where as
(30 -3) + 2 = 29

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[BETO74 0]

You got it!!!

http://web.mac.com/ac057a/iWeb/AC057A/H0M3.html

[shropshire 0]

pleifer was there first .. and it dragged back a distant memory

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[BlueEyedMonster 0]

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It's all down to the order of precedence of math's operators...

I think ya missed the point. Order of precedence works great in a formula. But the anomaly exists because the events in the story problem occur contrary to the order of precedence.