Three friends went to a restaurant and drew up a bill of £75-00.
Each contributed £25-00 towards this and the waiter took the bill to the cashier.
The cashier corrected a mistake and decided to give them a discount, and asked the waiter to return £5-00.
The dishonest waiter kept £2 in his pocket and gave £1-00 to each one of the three persons.
That brings us to the mystery.
Initially each one had contributed £25-00. And each received £1-00 back making their contribution £24-00.
Thus, all contributed £ 24-00 — that is £24 × 3 = £72-00
£72-00 and the £2 in the waiter’s pocket makes a total of £74-00. But they had paid £75-00.
Where is the missing £1-00?
...this is too much for me to figure out this morning.
ReplyDeleteGave it to charity.
ReplyDeleteAsking me to solve a math problem is an improbability, Victor. I hope you'll give us an answer soon!
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Hello Victor: very interesting, but if he had two in his pocket and gave back one to each how can there be one missing, it is a mystery, I do hope you share the answer.
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ReplyDeleteBrenda22 July 2024 at 08:54
ReplyDeleteHi Victor, the waiter returning the five pounds would mean the friends only paid seventy pounds. The waiter giving them a pound each plus the seventy pounds given adds up to seventy three pounds. Add the two pounds kept by the waiter and the total amount of money adds up to seventy five pounds, so there would be no pound missing. :-
Thank you, and well done, Brenda. And thanx to everyone else who has commented.
DeleteBrenda is right - the problem confuses people by the way it is written. There is no missing Pound (£1.00).
The cashier returned £5 - meaning the total to be paid is £70. The waiter returned £3 (one each to each client) and kept £2 for himself = £5.
£5 + £70 = £75.
Brenda got it right.
God bless you all.
My reply to this mystery: I don't know anything about your country's currency, so I can't begin to even guess where that money went. But with that said, I'll take for truth what you have said in your comments to Brenda (above). Seems to make sense.
ReplyDeleteThanks to Brenda, I won't have to wave the white flag in surrender! Normally I love puzzles, but yours is way above my pay grade.
ReplyDeleteThanks Brenda!!! I couldn't figure it out!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for Brenda’s answer. I enjoyed thinking about it but it was over my pay grade too.
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Great job, Brenda!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind comments regarding my figuring the answer out . I have always loved maths.
ReplyDeleteThank you for explaining it so well, Brenda.
DeleteGod bless.