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      Other pages:  Welcome!     Home    Contents Get your brain teaser solved! View my blog on particle physics here THE MISSING MONEY  - ANSWER Age group: All The question was: "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! N ow, each of the three friends gets a hundred rupee back. thus they each paid...

      Other pages:  Welcome!     Home   Contents Get your brain teaser solved! View my blog on particle physics here THE MISSING MONEY Age group: All 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 ...