saw this on some site, couldn’t believe how many people were thrown off the answer, its very simple really, can you get it?
"Three men order a pizza. When it is delivered the delivery boy charges
them £30 and they each give him a tenner.
When the delivery boy gets back to the pizza shop the manager tells
him that he has overcharged the men and the pizza should have been £25 so
he needs to go back and give the men £5 change.
On the way back the delivery boy, annoyed that he didn’t get a tip of any
kind, decides that he will only give the men £3 back and keep £2 for himself as a tip.
He knocks on the door and informs the three men that they have been
overcharged by £3 and gives them each £1, silently pocketing the £2 himself.
So, he left £25 back the shop, gave the men £1 back each and kept £2 for
himself - fine because that’s the £30.
However, if each of the men got £1 back they actually paid £9 each for the
pizza - can’t argue with that.
Three times £9 is £27 plus the £2 the boy
Where’s the other £1 gone???"
Each man paid 10 - 1 =9. 9 x 3 = 27. The pie was 25. 27 - 25 = 2, which the delivery boy kept. The key is the total the men paid includes the 2 the delivery boy kept.
well actually the wording is deceptive because it stated ‘plus’ £2 for the pizza boy, where it is more like ‘minus’ since you’re subtracting from the £30, not adding up to it. so £30 - £3 for the 3 men, then minus £2 tip for the delivery boy, so that’s the extra £5 accounted for, then its the remaining £25 to cover the cost of the pizza. 30-3-2=25
I thought the riddle was why people would pay £30 for pizza! Is that really what you guys pay? That’s like close to 50 bucks for 3 people! Around here we can get a couple of large one toppings for under $15, tip included!
Sorry! I didn’t think my last post included enough exclamation points! I thought I’d add some more! (It’s all that talk of pizza that gets me excited!)
Oh, about the “missing dollar”: I first heard it when I was about ten years old. Dad said, “It just goes to show you that figures don’t lie. But liars figure!”
Maybe its because I’m lonely, but the entire exchange about the 30£ pizza really tickled my funny bone, especially when syntax (sorry no bold… this keyboard is different and I can’t find the brackets) brought in a 15 footer…
For future reference, riddles you already know the answer to should go in MPSIMS rather than GQ. The missing dollar problem has been discussed ad nauseam, so I’ll close this thread rather than move it.
