Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $ 30,
payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $ 10 and go to their room.
A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by
$5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in.
The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends
would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them
that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends.
He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day!
Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent.
Where did the other dollar go????
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May 15th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Room mandik tak chu=$25/3 i.e $8.33per head
Add: $1 returned to each=$8.33+1 i.e $9.33per head
Add: Bellhop’s commission$2/3 i.e $.67 per head
Total=$10 per head
The dollar disappeared since we consider their assumption.
Nice post @ kanidari.Keeps a jobless me occupied
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May 15th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
He dollar khat ai hian ka bo chiang! Irreplacable hian rawn solve lo se chu ka hre miah lo ang kei chu! Hetiang lam hi chu ka then lohna lam tak a ni!
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May 15th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
@keimah.. kan in ang chiah… he tiang choh kual vel thin vang hian lom, matric ah ka tihchhiat em em…..hetiang hmuchhuaktu ho hi ka hua ania…. tun thleng a, ka matric certificate hmel ti bal tu math subject aw… thil nung chu ni se ka taw taw lik toh ang….he he math chu thiam lo ve sin….
khi thil ka hmuh poh khian ka sa nghal up up…i choh thiam loh chuan lunch i ei lo ang tih nan an hmang tih ka lo hlau nghal ringot……
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May 15th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
@kanidari..pls in khitiang lam khi chu a…..ka lungphu hian a zo lo… a chohna hnu ka thlek ngial a, ka han thai ve noh noh pon ka hrethiam chuang lo……..
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May 15th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
@keimah-Keipawh a then lo hrim hrim
,ka risk anih hi….ka risk ala huai tha a,kanidari hian a dik lo a rawn tih chuan ka tangna ngam der hlei nem…..ani lah chu a ngoi reng bok sia…..
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May 15th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I dik.
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May 15th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Vladimir Putin chu mood swing neihlai-mood fuh lutuk lo chunga lo post i va ang ve
.I comment hi a sipai top heheheh
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May 15th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
A dik a niang! Hria ila ka post lo tur!!!!
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May 15th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
nidar, you remind me f my high school maths teacher ( ka ning thei bon top). ka nun hrehawm hunlai min rawn remind fo suh aw!!!
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May 15th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Kanidar, min va han tibo map2 chiang ve a, tunah tak chuan $1 ai khian ka bo tawh zawk. Min han zawng ve thung teh u…
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May 15th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Must be in my pocket. 1$ may turn into 1 million dollers next year.
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May 15th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Accounting class ah kan professor in min solve a tum lai in va hriat chhuahtir ve he he he kan bo thei ru ra
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May 15th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
sorry solve tir tih zawk tur
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May 15th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Hetiang lampang hi Lengzemah ka chhiar tawh. A mak mai mai ngawt mai. A dikna chu ka hria, mahse a dik thei si lo. An ngaihtuah thiam reuh.
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May 15th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
middle school kan kal lai hun vel kha min tihre chhuak, a rei ve ta hle mai. Hetiang vel hi chu kan lo chawk phut ve dup tawh tak a.
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May 16th, 2008 at 5:47 am
lehkha them 30 ka siam a, ka chhut ngial a, $9 theuh chawi anga tih ngawt kha a dik thei thlawt lo a ni e.
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May 16th, 2008 at 5:57 am
He thil hi a theory in a dik thei, mahse a practical in a dik thei lo.
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May 16th, 2008 at 9:39 am
A chiang reng alawm cheng 9 theuh chawi ah an inngai ringawta an chawi zat tak chu cheng 25/3=8.33 niin bellhop hnenah a eiruk tur 9-8.33=.67 anlo pe tel ve reng alo nia (Mizorama thil kal kual vel dan a ang angreng) hemi te pahnih danglamna concept hriat tawh chuan engti pawn chawk ila 30 a chhuak hrim hrim. khaimah aw:
8.33×3+.67×3+3=9×3+3=30 (mi 3 te atanga chhut in)
(8.33+1)x3+.67×3=9.33+.67×3=30 (a eiru tu lam atanga chhut in)
Or
8.33+1+.67= Rs 10 per head
Irreplaceable in a sawi khi meaning chu a then lai ah mi 3 te asumption/hriat dan kan hmana a eiru/hrechiang tu lam assumption nen kan hman pawlh chuan a dik theilo ani.
Hetiang problem confusing deuh concept zir chian hi mathematics leh physics ah a tangkai teh mai ania. In nau te kha math thiam se in duh chuan lehkha zir lohlai pawn hetiang lampang tih tir ngun hi a tangkai ve riau ania. a confusing thei rapthlak:-)
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