The Missing Money
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THE MISSING MONEY
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Here is a very popular puzzle which I am sure all of you will be able to solve!
"Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is Rs. 3000, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk Rs. 1000 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realises he has made an error and overcharged the trio by Rs. 500. He asks the Assistant to return Rs. 500 to the 3 friends who had just checked in.
The Assistant sees this as an opportunity to make Rs. 200 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing Rs. 500 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only Rs. 300, giving a hundred rupee note back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover Rs. 200 and goes home for the day!
Now, each of the three friends gets a hundred rupee back. thus they each paid Rs. 900 for the room, which is a total of Rs. 2700 for the night. We know the Assistant pocketed Rs. 200 and adding that to the 2,700, you get Rs. 2,900, not Rs. 3,000 which was originally spent.
Where did the other hundred rupees go?"
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Lavanya
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