Riddles: Receptionist
and the missing dollar (Question)
Three men check in at a hotel and share a room with
three beds. The room rate is $30 pr. night, so each man pays $10 to the
receptionist.
A little later the receptionist realises that the hotel
currently having a promotion, so the room only costs $25 pr. night. The
receptionist takes 5 dollar bills and walks toward the room to return the
money. On the way to the room, however, the receptionist asks himself: “How can
three people share $5?” To makes things easy the receptionist puts two dollar
bills in his pocket and returns three dollar bills – one for each of the three
men.
During the night the receptionist cannot sleep
because he cannot get the accounts right. The men have now paid $9 each (3 x $9
= $27) plus the $2 in his pocket gives $29. Where did the last dollar go?
Can you please help the receptionist with his
accounts, so he can get his sleep?