Thursday, August 17, 2006,7:19 PM| **UPDATED** Three engineers rented a hotel room that was supposed to cost $40. The desk clerk mistakenly charged them $15 each, which means a total of $45. Later, he realised that he had overcharged them, but could not figure out how to divide $5 refund among the three engineers. So he pocketed $2 and return one dollar to each of the engineers. In the end, the engineers ended up paying $14 each, or $42 in total. What happened to the last dollar. hahaaa. it was kinda amusing. my sis, my mum and i kept trying to figure it out and even made fake money and acted out the situation. kinda mind baffling. LOL. THE CoNCLUSION THE method i proposed that time was apparently wrong. hahah. Liang Mong actually solved it! he saw my post and actually sms-ed to explain the whole situation to me. whaha. cleverrr. x) so here goes... that's what he said.. " the initial value is only to misguide you. they paid 15 X 3. Each got refunded 1. So they paid 42 in total. And out of this 42, 2 is taken by the clerk. While the rest is for the room. they tried to trick you by talking about 42+2. actually, the 2 dollars is taken from the sum of 42. " 42 ( paid by the 3 person)- 2 ( from clerk) = 40 ( for room) TADAAA!! mystery solved! yay! thank you Liang Mong! =)))))) | ||||||||
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