30th Jan

Find the one dollar

Three friends went to a hotel.

The bill was $75

Each one contributed $25

The waiter took the bill to the
Cashier.

The cashier was happy & decided

To give them a discount of $5 & asked the waiter to return
them $5.

Now the waiter was confused.

How to distribute $5 among 3 persons?

He kept$2 in his pocket &
Gave one dollar to each one of the 3 persons.

So initially each one had contributed
$25. Now as they are given 1 rupee back, their contribution reduces
to $24.

They all contributed $24 –

That is 24×3=72 & 2 dollar are in the waiters pocket.
The total becomes 74.
But they Had paid $75.

Where is the remaining 1 dollar?????????

5 Comments »

  1. Jigar January 31, 2010

    They actually paid for $73 in total.

    The actual payment done by everyone is not $24 – it is in fact $24.33. So, the arithmatic becomes

    $24.33 * 3 + $2 = $75.

    There was never a dollar lost, it is just shared by all 3 people equally logically – provided the waiter kept $2.

    It is rather a question that is confusing – not the answer :)

  2. Omprakash Mundra February 8, 2010

    Dear Sandeep,
    All three friends contributed $75. Cashier has returned $5. So, actual contribution of each friend was $75-$5= $70/3=$23.33. Waiter has returned $1 to each friend i.e.each friend spend $23.33+$1=$24.33. Waiter has kept $2 means he has not returned $2/3=$.66 to each friend. The sum of each friend + waiter is $25. Only your way of presentation is creating confusion.

  3. yogesh February 13, 2010

    i think they are also given 1 rupee back after “one dollar to each”…
    so calculation might be different over here. :)

  4. Mahmoud Swehli July 21, 2010

    The calculation at the bottom is wrong. You calculation includes the $2 the waiter took twice(the 72$ already includes that) instead of including the $3 returned.
    Each person paid 24$, which is in total 72$. that includes the $2 the waiter took. Then, they got $1 each back, ($3 in total), which means the total is still $75.
    So, 70$ for the food, plus $2 for the waiter, plus $3 back is 75$.

  5. devisingh rajput March 10, 2011

    Question is for 1 dollor…..here is answer sharing since no one pointed exactly out same…

    //Where is the remaining 1 dollar?????????//

    remaining 1 dollor is with cashier……this is answer….

    how..confusing…rcalculate consider cashier return 6 dollor instead 5…hope that remove all confusion and answer to the point…

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