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Riddles!, #2 |
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Fishing
One fine summer day two fathers and two sons went fishing at their favorite lake. They fished and talked all morning long and by noon everyone had caught one fish. As the two fathers and two sons walked back home, everyone was happy because each had a fish even though only three fish had been caught. Two fathers and two sons. Only three fish and no fish were lost. How can this have happened? |
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cb=bullshit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 1,783 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,793 ![]() |
QUOTE 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? each of them did not pay 9 dollars for the room...they got jipped... the room came out the be 25 dollars, right? 25/3 = $8.33 x 3 comes out to be about 25 dollars... now let's add the 2 dollars the bellhop stole which makes 27 dollars... and then the three dollars they got back makes it 30 dollars... That's how I see it... you may have worded your riddle wrong, or I got it right... ![]() |
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