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Non-Tech : The Critical Investing Workshop
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To: Clappy who wrote (21500)6/5/2000 7:04:00 AM
From: Clappy  Read Replies (2) of 35685
 
Here's a brain puzzler for you and the scientists:

Three room mates decide to chip in and order two pizzas and some soda.

The delivery boy knocks at the door and hands them the food and tells them the bill is $30.

The three room mates each give the the delivery boy a $10 bill.

When the delivery boy returns to the pizza shop, the owner explains that the boy overcharged them.
The total should have been only $25.

The delivery boy drives back to return the $5 that was over charged. This isn't easily divided by
three, so to prevent the room mates from having problems he does the following:

He realizes that he never received a tip, so he decides to keep $2 for himself and return $3 which is
easily divided between the three roommates.

Here is the Brain Puzzler part:
Each Roommate orginally chipped in $10 and then gets $1 returned to them. Thus, they each chipped in a total of $9.

$9x3=$27

The Pizza Delivery boy kept $2 as a tip.

$27+$2=$29

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MISSING DOLLAR???

-Clappy
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