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A mathematical riddle...

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ShoulderSurfer
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Three guys check into a whore-house for the night and the pimp tells them it’s $30 for the hooker, payable in advance. So, they each pay the pimp $10 and go to the hooker’s room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He as...ks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 guys who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three guys would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the pimp made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three guys gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????
Nov 13 2009 6:04PM
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Bepo
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they paid $27, $25 goes to the pimp and the bellhop keeps $2
Nov 13 2009 6:08PM
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q_sketch
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it all makes sense... it's just worded to shit
Nov 13 2009 6:09PM
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GayWolf420
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im soo fucking confused......
Nov 13 2009 6:10PM
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OhMyBosh
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lolwat.

worst riddle ever.
Nov 13 2009 6:14PM
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derbski
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basically the question is, if they each get one dollar back, then they each payed 9 dollars, and since 9 x 3= 27, and the bellhop only kept 2, there is only a grand total of 29 bucks, what happened to the other dollar.
Nov 13 2009 6:15PM
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Tasche
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Pimp: 25
Bell boy: 2
Guys: 3
Total: 30

If you go by what each guy paid you get 9X3 which is 27.  25 of that is in the pimps hand and 2 of that is in the bell boys hand.  You can't add the bell boys money to the 27 because he already has 2 dollars from the original sum.

So the original 30 goes as such.  25 to the pimp, 2 to bellboy and 3 to dudes who are going to have an orgy, the bad kind of orgy.
Nov 13 2009 6:17PM
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ShoulderSurfer
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I think the better question is... Why is it 3 guys one girl?
Nov 13 2009 6:22PM
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OhMyBosh
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1. guys give the pimp $30
2. pimp tells bellhop to give them $5 back
3. bellhop pockets $2 and gives the dudes $3.
4. = $30
5. ???
6. profit

How is this a riddle?
Nov 13 2009 6:25PM
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ShoulderSurfer
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hey buddy you're right!!! its not a mathematical riddle, its more a play on words.
Nov 13 2009 6:45PM
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