Riddle I need help with

[AntlerCollector]

Well dang

[Goldeneagle]

D. All of the above.

[TxAg]

Three women rent a hotel room. Hotel clerk charged them $30. They each pay $10 each. The clerk realized he overcharged them. Cost was $25. He sent the bellhop to return the $5. Well the bellhop decides he can’t split $5 three ways so he pockets $2 and gives $1 back to each of the women. That means the women ended up only paying $9 each for a total of $27. The bellhop kept $2. That totals $29.


What happened to the other dollar?

The math was answered and another poster mentioned it was a word trick. The reason it's a word trick is in the bolded sentences. When it says the bellhop kept $2 it is misleading b/c that is already included in the $27 (25+2) in the previous sentence. That leaves only the $3 they receive back.

So, as we already know, they paid $25 for the room, $2 for the tip, and got back $1 each totaling $30.

[meltingfeather]

30-3+2 always equals 29.
$30 paid - $3 given back is your $27. Less the $2 in the hop’s pocket gets you to $25, which is what the manager has in the register. Adding $2 is the trick of the riddle and has no place in the math.

[sideways]

25+3 is 28 not 27


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[Duckologist]

30-3+2 always equals 29.
$30 paid - $3 given back is your $27. Less the $2 in the hop’s pocket gets you to $25, which is what the manager has in the register. Adding $2 is the trick of the riddle and has no place in the math.

The trick is asking where the extra dollar went when there is no extra dollar

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