I figured this one out. Can you?
Three men walk into a hotel and ask for a room. The clerk says that it will cost 30 dollars. Each man gives the clerk 10 dollars. After awhile, the clerk realizes that he may have charged them too much and asks the bell hop to return five dollars to the men upstairs. As the hop is heading upstairs, the hop tries to figure out how to split five dollars up between three men. He sticks two dollars in his pocket and gives each man one dollar. Each man has now paid nine dollars. By simple arithmetic we all know that 3x9=27, and the hop pocketed two bucks. However, this only adds up to 29 dollars. What happened to the one dollar missing?
Originally posted by EsteemedLeader
I figured this one out. Can you?Three men walk into a hotel and ask for a room. The clerk says that it will cost 30 dollars. Each man gives the clerk 10 dollars. After awhile, the clerk realizes that he may have charged them too much and asks the bell hop to return five dollars to the men upstairs. As the hop is heading upstairs, the hop tries to figure out how to split five dollars up between three men. He sticks two dollars in his pocket and gives each man one dollar. Each man has now paid nine dollars. By simple arithmetic we all know that 3x9=27, and the hop pocketed two bucks. However, this only adds up to 29 dollars. What happened to the one dollar missing?
OK I got one thats a very open ended kinda riddle, youre gonna have to think outside of the box, I think anyway.
Imagine you are in a room with 3 switches. In adjacent room there are 3 bulbs, each switch belongs to some bulb. It is impossible to see from one room to another. How can you find out, which switch belongs to which bulb, if you may enter the room with bulbs only once?
Well you could Turn on one switch, and leave it switched on for a minute or two before switching off again letting the bulb heat up, then turn on another switch and enter the room. The first bulb will still be warm, and another bulb will be switched on. The third bulb belongs to the switch you haven't touched.................thats the only thing i could think of doing
Originally posted by sweetness
Well you could Turn on one switch, and leave it switched on for a minute or two before switching off again letting the bulb heat up, then turn on another switch and enter the room. The first bulb will still be warm, and another bulb will be switched on. The third bulb belongs to the switch you haven't touched
Right you are.
Originally posted by sweetness
Well you could Turn on one switch, and leave it switched on for a minute or two before switching off again letting the bulb heat up, then turn on another switch and enter the room. The first bulb will still be warm, and another bulb will be switched on. The third bulb belongs to the switch you haven't touched.................thats the only thing i could think of doing
Originally posted by Hegemon875
isnt it always
I guess so.
Originally posted by EsteemedLeader
I figured this one out. Can you?Three men walk into a hotel and ask for a room. The clerk says that it will cost 30 dollars. Each man gives the clerk 10 dollars. After awhile, the clerk realizes that he may have charged them too much and asks the bell hop to return five dollars to the men upstairs. As the hop is heading upstairs, the hop tries to figure out how to split five dollars up between three men. He sticks two dollars in his pocket and gives each man one dollar. Each man has now paid nine dollars. By simple arithmetic we all know that 3x9=27, and the hop pocketed two bucks. However, this only adds up to 29 dollars. What happened to the one dollar missing?
This has me totally confused... I don't understand how they could have paid 10 each, making 30... and then had 1 returned to each of them, meaning they paid 27... and yet the bell hop only pocketed 2 dollars. WHAT happened to the other one? And don't just say lost/stolen, because the math doesn't add up. Or am I being stupid?