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Hey people, me and my mum have been trying to work out this quiz and its really doing our heads in so I thought I would come here and see if anyone knows the answer.

Three guys go for a meal in a restaurant. They are given a bill for ?30 so they all pay equally ?10. The waiter processes the bill but realises that they have been over charged, they should only have been charged ?25. So from the change they tell the waiter to keep ?2 as a tip, and they divide the remaining ?3 between them. So in effect 3x9= 27 + ?2 tip= ?29 but they put in ?30 to begin with. Where does the extra ?1 go?

The way I see it is, they all pay ?10, the waiter gives them back ?5, they take ?1 each and then pay back the ?2 tip. What do you guys think?

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?2 tip??? thats cheap, they deserve having ?1 less.

actually, when they each took ?3 it means that they now only payed ?27, minus ?2 (cheap) for the waiter, that makes ?25, the cost of the bill.

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the total charge is 27 (25 + 2 for the tip). it makes no sense to add another 2.

if you want to find the total amount of money handed over, it's 27 + 3 = 30 (i.e. 10x3), where the 3 is simply handed back and distributed evenly.

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Maybe I'm an idiot, or a brilliant genius

I don't see the problem.

Forget how much they paid, they basically get back $5 pound change (Sorry I don't know how to type pounds) two goes to waiter, and 1 pound back to each peroson

5 - 2 = 3

( 3 / 3 people)

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Hey people, me and my mum have been trying to work out this quiz and its really doing our heads in so I thought I would come here and see if anyone knows the answer.

Three guys go for a meal in a restaurant. They are given a bill for ?30 so they all pay equally ?10. The waiter processes the bill but realises that they have been over charged, they should only have been charged ?25. So from the change they tell the waiter to keep ?2 as a tip, and they divide the remaining ?3 between them. So in effect 3x9= 27 + ?2 tip= ?29 but they put in ?30 to begin with. Where does the extra ?1 go?

The way I see it is, they all pay ?10, the waiter gives them back ?5, they take ?1 each and then pay back the ?2 tip. What do you guys think?

3x9=27 which is the cost plus the tip(27-25=2), and then they divide the remaining 3 among themselves, which breaks even. It just a simple miscalculation in that you are adding the tip twice, leaving you with 1 to split among the 3 people.

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Crap, Sorry I dont know how edit :

anyways, think about this way,

The ACTUAL cost is 27 right? (25 bill + 2 tips)

so technically each person pays nine right?

then, what's the problem, there is no magical dollar if each peroson only pays 9 each.

OR think about this way

A = Alfred, B= Bob, C = Cathy

A pays 10

B pays 10

C pays 10

Bill comes back, there is five dollars left on table,

so out of the five that is supposed to be redistrubted to all three

A gets 2 dollar back

B gets 2 dollar back

C gets 1 dollar back

So person C is paying a dollar more technically for the bill

Ergo they paid two dollar tips which means:

A paid 10 - 2 + 1 = 9

B paid 10 - 2 + 1 = 9

C paid 10 - 1 = 9

It's hard to explain online, but thats it

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lets see:

since the check is now 25 each guy pays a part of it eqaulling 8.33 each. now they pay the waitress 2 total so each guy is paying 9. now add a dollar for each you get 30.

in other words

each guy's account goes like this: 10 orignal, 8.33 for the 25 check, 9 including the tip from the waitress and then the dollar back so its to 30.

so they pay 9 before the extra three not after it.

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Its just the way its explained. You hit it dead on the nails by explaining it differently as it was $30, they overpaid by 5 so they got that back, paying now only $25, then they gave the waiter a $2 tip and was left with $3.

The other dollar is not lost because it wasn't really there to be lost.

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Lol, Its the words that are tricking you and they add in the part with 3x9= 27 crap, but really it has nothing to do with it. I still think the same: they all pay $10, which equals $30 they get back $5 and pay the waiter $2, and they all recieve $1 each left over from the $5. :blink: :huh: :)

Edit: btw Isus ur avatar is damn fine ;)

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