Three ladies go to a restaurant for a meal. They receive a bill for $30. They each put $10 on the table, which the waiter collects and takes to the till. The cashier informs the waiter that the bill should only have been for $25 and returns $5 to the waiter in single dollar bills. On the way back to the table the waiter realizes that he cannot divide the bills equally among the ladies.
Since they don’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to put $2 in his own pocket and give each of the ladies $1.
Now, each of the ladies paid $9. Three times 9 is $27. The waiter has $2 in his pocket. Two plus 27 is $29. The ladies originally handed over $30.
Where is the missing dollar?
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The two dollars would add up to the 29, then the 1 dollar would be covered because of the tax
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The missing dollar is found when we remember that the bill is originally 25 dollars.
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the dollar isn’t missing
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There is no missing dollar. The calculation is wrong and flawed. The total money paid at the end is incorrect and not right. If the riddle was redone correctly, the total would come out to $30 which would mean a dollar was not missed.
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they each payed 27, and have 3 in their pockets. the waiter then took two dollars, so you wouldn’t add 2 to get 29, you would subtract 2, because the 2 that he took was part of the 27 that the ladies payed. so, the restaurant has 25 in total, the 27 the ladies payed minus the 2 the waiter took. the restaraunt has 25, the waiter has 2, and the three ladies each have a dollar, 25+2+3=30
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