Yesterday towards the end of the day, our finance manager dropped a riddle on everyone in the office. It’s a classic riddle called “The Missing Dollar,” have you ever heard it? For those who haven’t:
Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn’t know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.
Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back, each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
— I’ll give you a few minutes to think about that. Go ahead, I can wait. Actually, I’m not even going to tell you the answer. I’ll leave it to you to figure out for yourself (or to Google). Guess which Frog figured it out first? Yes, of course it was me. Anything involving math isn’t really isn’t my forte, but riddles I can usually figure out.
Come in to One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment in Orlando and before shopping for all of your commercial restaurant equipment needs, try to stump the crew with a riddle. Then browse our warehouse and we’ll try to have it solved by the time you’re done. If you stump us, maybe we’ll even cut you a deeper discount than usual. Bring it on!
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