06-06-2013, 04:40 PM
OK, my turn. This is an old one:
Three travelers register at a hotel and are told that their rooms will cost $100 each so they pay $300. Later the clerk realizes that he made a mistake and should have only charged them the group rate of $250. He gives a bellboy $50 to return to them but the bellboy is dishonest and gives them each only $10, keeping $20 for himself. So the men actually spent $270 and the bellboy kept $20 making a total of $290. What happened to the other $10 of the original $300?
Three travelers register at a hotel and are told that their rooms will cost $100 each so they pay $300. Later the clerk realizes that he made a mistake and should have only charged them the group rate of $250. He gives a bellboy $50 to return to them but the bellboy is dishonest and gives them each only $10, keeping $20 for himself. So the men actually spent $270 and the bellboy kept $20 making a total of $290. What happened to the other $10 of the original $300?
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD