Maths based puzzle/question

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This is a long shot but here goes anyway.

I remeber reading a puzzle a while ago based on adding up some items.

Depending on how you did it you ended up with missing numbers.

I think it was three brothers selling an item and recieving some money back which didnt divide up evenly.

Anyone know what im talking about ?
 
Something like this?

Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn’t know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.

Now that each of the guests have been given $1 back, each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
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vonhelmet said:
BALLS.

You think I'd get this right given I spent about half an hour figuring it out last time it was posted.

£25 in the till
£2 in the bell-boy's pocket
£3 in the guests pockets
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Yes - so out of the guest pockets is the money in the till, and the money in the bellhops pockets. 25+2 = 27 which is what I said.


edit sorry i thought you were 'BALLS' at me, but i think you were 'BALLS' at yourself. :)
 
whitecrook said:
Yes - so out of the guest pockets is the money in the till, and the money in the bellhops pockets. 25+2 = 27 which is what I said.


edit sorry i thought you were 'BALLS' at me, but i think you were 'BALLS' at yourself. :)
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Indeed. It was the text equivalent of attempting to teabag myself for services to stupidity.
 
there was a similar thing on TV once about this sort of thing. explaining how to cheat an unsuspecting shop keeper, i forget how it goes, but it's something like you go to the shop keeper and ask for change of a £20, but confuse them into giving you more money, it's all about putting something into their head to confuse them.
 
kevmeister said:
there was a similar thing on TV once about this sort of thing. explaining how to cheat an unsuspecting shop keeper, i forget how it goes, but it's something like you go to the shop keeper and ask for change of a £20, but confuse them into giving you more money, it's all about putting something into their head to confuse them.
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kevmeister said:
there was a similar thing on TV once about this sort of thing. explaining how to cheat an unsuspecting shop keeper, i forget how it goes, but it's something like you go to the shop keeper and ask for change of a £20, but confuse them into giving you more money, it's all about putting something into their head to confuse them.
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I read that like you had an eagle on your head. Real one.

EAGLE HEAD IS YOU.
 
Skyfall said:
I don't know if I'd be caught out by that scam, seems a bit obvious to me.
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It's unlikely somebody of your calibre would be working behind a till though ;)

I saw this on that con programme thing with the two blokes and the fit bird. They say it works most of the time in charity shops with volunteer staff behind the till or quiet small shops.
 
kevmeister said:
there was a similar thing on TV once about this sort of thing. explaining how to cheat an unsuspecting shop keeper, i forget how it goes, but it's something like you go to the shop keeper and ask for change of a £20, but confuse them into giving you more money, it's all about putting something into their head to confuse them.
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I've had this done on me when I used to work on a till... I knew the guy was trying to confuse me, but I was sure I did everything right. Few days later I'm interviewed for a till-short :(
 
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