Can you find my missing $?
Solution Explorers on November 4th, 2009. Under Fun StuffI saw this on the Smart Selling Tools blog and thoroughly enjoyed the challenge and comments by responders. I then shared this with my family and my 9 year daughter showed me how smart she is! Have fun…
Situation: Three consultants go on an overnight toot to Las Vegas. After losing most of their money at the Blackjack tables, they decide to get a cheap hotel room so they can shower and shave before catching their flight back to the client site. The room is $30, so they each give the front desk clerk ten dollars.
After they go upstairs, the front desk clerk realizes that it’s after midnight, so he should only have charged the men $25 instead of $30. He hands the bellhop five one-dollar bills with instructions to return the money to the men in their room.
On the way upstairs, the bellhop decides to keep two dollars for himself. He knocks on the door and gives each of the men one dollar.
Challenge: Now, each of the men has paid $27 and the bellhop has $2, which adds up to $29. What happened to the other dollar?
