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• gonfission 2,230 Posts

  Tue, Aug 22 2017 4:04 PM

  mkg335:

  Too easy

  Not as easy as you think, as we learned in the first, things are not always what they seem to be

  Try again

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Tue, Aug 22 2017 4:10 PM

  gonfission:

  30 cows, 28 chicken in a field

  How many didn't?

  Obviously, didn't what? I say run away in which case 58 didn't   :-)

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Tue, Aug 22 2017 4:25 PM

  You start with a total payment of $30 from the three men.  They're refunded $5 so that their total cost is now $25.  The clerk refunds $3 and keeps $2.

  25 + 3 + 2 = 30

  The math tells the tale, the semantics of the set-up mislead.

  ;-)

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Tue, Aug 22 2017 4:33 PM

  gonfission:

  mkg335:

  Too easy

  Not as easy as you think, as we learned in the first, things are not always what they seem to be

  Try again

  No need to try again...I gave a perfectly logical answer with (hopefully) a touch of humor.  I rest my case.*

  (in lieu of a case I'll settle for a six-pack)

   

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Tue, Aug 22 2017 4:34 PM

  mkg335:

   They're refunded $5 so that their total cost is now $25

  No, they're not.  They only got $3 back. As far as they are concerned they paid $27 based on what was returned to them. There's 27 hard dollars in their hands and 3 dollars to account for. Keep 'splaining.  ;-)

   

  p.s., You feel like you're talking to Doc?  :-D

   

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Tue, Aug 22 2017 4:38 PM

  No need to keep 'splaining...the math 'splains.

  ;-)

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Tue, Aug 22 2017 4:39 PM

  gonfission, your latest riddle works if spoken, not so much when it's text only...and that's all I have to say, er type about that.

  ;-)

   

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Tue, Aug 22 2017 4:40 PM

  Aaargh, you disappoint me, Mark.  I'd string this out but I gotta go. It's all in the perception. The actual cost of the room plus the $2 that the clerk snagged is $27.  :-)

• phred952 2,714 Posts

  Tue, Aug 22 2017 4:40 PM

  The original premise is that they each paid $10 for the room, for a total of $30.  But , if the room cost $25.00, then   $25.00 / 3 is $8.331/3, not $8.00.  So $8.331/3  +  $1.00 refunded is $9.331/3 each.  $9.331/3 * 3 = $28.00.  $28.00 + $2.00 the clerk kept =$30.00.  The original amount paid.  No missing money.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Tue, Aug 22 2017 4:42 PM

  phred952:

  The original premise is that they each paid $10 for the room, for a total of $30.  But , if the room cost $25.00, then   $25.00 / 3 is $8.331/3, not $8.00.  So $8.331/3  +  $1.00 refunded is $9.331/3 each.  $9.331/3 * 3 = $28.00.  $28.00 + $2.00 the clerk kept =$30.00.  The original amount paid.  No missing money.

  The expected response but it fails because there were no coins involved.  ;-)