Need help with a Riddle!

Three guys are stranded on the road and decide to head to a hotel. The clerk tells them its $30 dollars for a room, so each guy antes up $10 dollars and they go to their room.

The clerk goes 'Oh, I've made a mistake, it was only $25 dollars' and gives the maid the extra $5 dollars to give back to the guys.

The maid thinks...well $5 dollars cant be split 3 ways so she takes $2 dollars and gives each guy $1 dollar.

So... now each guy paid $9 dollars and the maid has $2 dollars. That only adds up to $29.

Where did the extra $1 dollar go?


This has me stumped, I really do not know the answer.
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Reply #1 Top
The answer is all in how you approach the riddle. Don't think of it in terms of what the three guys paid, but instead just in terms of what the maid gave each of them ($1 x 3 = $3) and what she kept for herself ($2). Add that to the $25 ($25 + $3 + $2 = $30). If you try to think of it the other way, you will never find the missing dollar.

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/me has each one of those mystery dollars from those types of riddles secretly funneled into his offshore bank account.

Just checked the balance $0.00 ...now there's a riddle!

..maybe not! !

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3x10=30
30-5=25
25/3=8.33 1/3
8.33 1/3+1=9.33 1/3
9.33 1/3x3=28
Each paid $9.33 1/3 because the maid has $2

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After a long argument with the person who told me this, I finally got him to cave in. The way he explained the answer is this...

The guys paid $27 in total...
and the maid KEPT $2

$27 - the $2 the maid KEPT is $25 which is how much the room cost to begin with!!