Three poor farmers visit the big city for the first time. In the town, they visit a cheap hotel.
The hotel owner is farmer-friendly: he has a room for 3 persons which costs only 30 dollars.
So, the farmers agree to pay $10 each. They pay and go to their room.
But then, the hotel owner realises that he has forgotten his super discount. The farmers only had to pay $25.
So, he calls the bell-boy and tells him to give the farmers their $5 back.
But the bell-boy thinks: "You can't split 5 by 3 well. If I give them their $5, they'll probably have a fight."
So he keeps $2 for himself and gives the other $3 to the farmers.
Now, the farmers each paid $9, that's $27 in total, and the bell boy kept $2. But together, that's $29!
What happened to the missing dollar?
The statement that each farmers paid $9 is not correct i suppose. The actual expenditure for 3 of them is 30$ so each of them has to pay 10$. But the owner gives them 5$ concession. Out of which the bell boy keeps 2$. So the total cost encured by 3 farmers for the stay in hotel is 28 dollars. Which makes it 9.333333 dollars per head. The remaining 2 dollars goes to the bell boy so where is the question of 1 dollar missing????? Is the question correct?
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