15
Oct

A little puzzle for you:

   Posted by: steveo   in Uncategorized

Three men buy a $30.00 item together, each paying $10.00

The seller realizes after they are gone that he should have only charged $25.00

But he doesn’t know how to split $5.00 3 ways. So he pockets $2.00 and gives

each man $1.00 back.

So each man paid $9.00

$9.00 X 3 = 27

27 + 3 = 30

BUT

the seller only pocketed $2.00

Where is the extra dollar?

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2 comments so far

 1 

I like this but it is really easy. $9×3=$27 - $2 = $25

October 23rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
 2 

Great Job Deb!

You are exactly right.

Now, I wonder if the misdirection in this post is enough to call it a political post or not . . .

October 23rd, 2008 at 2:05 pm

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