Saturday, May 14, 2011

The Bellhop Riddle

You know the riddle about the three people who . . . oh, anyway, (we've printed it below the photos in case you're curious) we've got the photographic version of that in the team blog pictures, where we've managed to publish 25 team photos below, using 21 photos but somehow we're missing one team. Can you figure out which team?



























The Bellhop Riddle:
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?

2 comments:

Jen said...

$25 was given to the clerk
$2 to the bell hop
$1 /guest 1
$1 /guest 2
$1 /guest 3
$30 total

What do you mean? It's all accounted for, isn't it?

Jen said...

I (ahem) know which team is missing too.

*embarrassed*