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Old 11-11-2005, 09:30 AM  
NickPapageorgio
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Math Riddle...

Three men are are traveling on business. They stop at a motel for the night and are told it's $30 for the room.

They each pay $10.

Later, the manager realizes it was only $25 for the night since it was a week night, not the weekend. He sends a clerk to the room with their $5. The clerk is trying to figure out how to break the $5 evenly between the 3 men. He decides he'll give each man $1 and keep $2 for himself.

Now, each man has paid $9 for the room. That's $27.
The clerk has the $2 he kept. That's a total of $29.

Where did the other $1 go?
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