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From: Navid Haddadi
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:24
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:24
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Here is a very old puzzle: Three men rent a room for $30. The inn keeper decides that he has over charged them and gives the bellboy $5 to give back to the men. The bellboy decides to keep $2 and give each man $1. So, each man has paid $9 (3x9=27) plus the $2 that the boy kept. Hence, 27+2=30. It is actually more funny than silly!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!usc!not-for-mail From: haddadi@sipi.usc.edu (Navid Haddadi) Newsgroups: rec.puzzles Subject: 27+2=30 Date: 26 Jan 1993 00:24:20 -0800 Organization: USC, LA, CA Lines: 8 Sender: haddadi@sipi.usc.edu Message-ID: <1k2sfkINN9pf@sipi.usc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sipi.usc.edu