Subject:  TGIF..........
Date:     Fri, 3 Apr 1998 082143 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:

Restoring an earlier "tradition".....  I find the following "fun"
to play with.....  Thanks Larry.....  (BTW, Larry, a friend and former
shipmate, writes books about math subjects, like "compound interest,"
etc.....)

Cheerio......

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:23:15 EST
From: Larrosen33 
To: rbeavers@mail.llion.org
Cc: aherbst@utep.edu
Subject: puzzle

hi, I have known this story for years.   Surprised to run across it on the
web, though.  If you like travel you will appreciate that it takes place in a
motel.  

Three men went to a motel. The man behind the desk said the room is $30, so
each man put up $10 each and went to the room. 
A little while later the desk clerk  realized the room was only $25, so he
sent the bellhop back to the 3 guys room with $5. 

On the way to the room the bellhop couldn't figure how to split the $5 between
the 3 guys so he just gave each one of them $1 and he kept the other $2. 

That left the 3 guys paying $9 each for the room.  3x9=27 plus the $2 that the
bellhop kept = $29.

But they paid $30, so WHERE'S THE OTHER DOLLAR?????? 

A great solution wins a prize ! !  So tell me what you think.
Cheers
larry



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