Oh fer Gawd’s sake, can we put this stupid puzzle to rest? At least two threads today, and one last week, and one every two months reaching back until the Big Bang.
Christ on a cracker, you don’t need limits, or calculus, or a slide rule to figure this out.
PAY ATTENTION NOW:
THE HOTEL GOT $25.
THE BELLBOY GOT $2.
THE MEN GOT $3.
25 + 2 + 3 = $30.
Jesus, my DOG could figure that out. And we’ve been OVER this about a KAZILLION times. :mad:
SHEESH.
Linken? Linken?
BUT WHERE DID THE OTHER DOLLAR GO???
Yeah, yeah, but I’ve got these shapes that, when you fit them together one way, they make a triangle, but when you fit them together another way they make the same triangle but with a missing square.
Sure, I know that neither figure is actually a triangle and it’s all based on assumptions, but you’ve gotta admit there’s no explanation.
Maybe if we all cough up $20 we can bribe both the Webster and OED to make “ingry” a proper term meaning “the central portion of the armpit.”
My wife says I look “ugry” with my new haircut. That’s the third word as far as I’m concerned.
Yes, but then they’d want to give five dollars back, and the bellboy will keep two…
Much better, I feel, would be to have the word ‘igry’ defined as ‘a gullible person and/or one who can insert their own head into their anus’
Just be thankful no one has started recently one about the contest where you have three doors and have to guess where is the prize and they open one door for you.
We need a webpage explaining all these problems, and we need it linked in a prominent place. Another one that’s come up a few times is “Does .999… REALLY equal 1?” We had one of those turn into a four-page nightmare last summer.
Oh, and don’t forget the electric ab belts.
It’s days like this I wish I remembered the version that takes the $30 paid and somehow ends up with something like $67.50.
I was offered a motel room with Monty Hall’s liver in the bathtub once, but I stuck to my 'phone booking.
here’s a link for all of you who, like me, haven’t heard this one in a while…
OK fine, the dollar is missing.
But, does a duck’s quack echo?
eeep.
Make that the dollar is NOT missing.
This puzzle still confuses the fuck out of me, even though I have read all the explanations. It’s impossible. I mean, where can you find a hotel room for $25?
Beeb: first off, howdy pal! Great to see you at the Atl Dopefest last month.
The fuckup is in the question.
Here’s the accounting:
3 guys pay $10 each.
Bellhop gives each of them a dollar back.
Bellhop keeps $2.
Guys have paid $9 each.
DON’T ADD THE BELLHOP’S $2 to the $27 they guys have paid, SUBTRACT IT.
Total outlay: $25. NOT $29. Damned math, and tricky wording. The 2 bucks came out of the $27!!!
Why do we drive on the parkway and park on the driveway? Aaaargh!
Aw shit. On preview, I get the joke (whoosh!). I KNEW you were sharper than that, but I am getting SO friggin’ tired of this non-quandry. FTR, our honeymoon lodgings are looking like $250+ per night this coming October. I’d jump at $9, or $10, or even $27!
I’ll eat my crow and leave my response above in case anyone is not still clear on the hotel dilemma. It’s not $27 PLUS $2 for the the bellhop, the $2 came OUT OF THE $27. They are out $25.
beeb, I applaud your sense of humor.
Should we open up a new forum called Dead Horses and just shunt all these threads over to it?
Using the axiom of choice on non-countable sets, you can prove that a solid sphere can be dissected into a finite number of pieces that can be reassembled to two solid spheres, each of same volume of the original. No more than nine pieces are needed.
The minimum possible number of pieces is five.
http://www.cs.unb.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/node70.html
Maybe Snopes should consider taking on this task. They already do a good job debunking and explaining a lot of other senseless crap that gets circulated around the Internet.