What the?!
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- Jimbo82
Why doesn't this work?! Surely a glitch in the Matrix...
Three men eat at a restaurant. The bill comes to £25. They each pay £10. When the waiter brings the £5 change they take back £1 each and leave a £2 tip. So each man has paid £9, which totals £27. The waiter has the £2 tip, which makes £29, so where's the other £1 gone?
Messing with my head!!!
- autoflavour0
because each person only needed to pay £8.33, not £9
- SkyPoo0
Jimbo...
Each man owes £8.33p (8.33 x 3 = 24.99) so there will be one penny short.
Each overpays by £1.67 (by paying in ten pounds each)
Each person takes back £1 from the change leaving 3x67p in the kitty. 3x67p= £2.01
The waiter gets a £2 tip, so there's a penny left over.
- sofakingbanned0
yea 8.33, not 9
Fuck my procrastination knows no bounds!
And I fucking hate math!
- October0
subtract instead of adding the £2 tip since its part of the £27
the breakdown
25 for the bill
2 for the tip
3 in each guys pocket
- autoflavour0
it did take me a few minutes to work it out tho
- Jimbo820
Well done October, that was the answer I was looking for.
Just interesting how it doesn't work when it's written that way
- thebottlerocket0
Sky poo is right
3*10-5+1+1+1+2 = 30
3*9+2 = 29
- That's not what Sky poo said.Jimbo82
- dont add 2 on the last equation. add 3 because they all took 1 each.October
- What did he say?thebottlerocket
- mistermik0
retards.
- So you jump in at the end after saying nothing and brand everyone retards?! HahaJimbo82
- well it is old and been explained elsewheremistermik
- yeah, retardshallelujah
- Jimbo820
Still doesn't make sense
- haha it doesmistermik
- how?!?!?! Tell me!Jimbo82
- forget the 29silentseven
- silentseven0
25 for the bill
2 for the tip
3 in each guys pocket is right.You must have mis counted or your buddy is scamming you.
- = 30
silentseven - so how much does each guy pay if he gets 1 back?Jimbo82
- 9.34silentseven
- = 30
- TheBlueOne0
This is a job for a David Blaine TV special!
- SkyPoo0
Jimbo, Don't worry about it. The liklihood of you being in a party of three, each of whome has a ten pound note, and eating a meal that cost exactly £25 is almost so remote it tickles impossibility in the ribs.
Furthermore if it did happen just tell them to keep the change and the fabric of the universe will remain intact, which is not too bad for a £5 tip.