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because it is not $9 a meal, it is 25/3 which is $8.3333333 there you go. the answer is in the riddle

i got it see!

But they didn't pay 9 bucks for the meal, they paid ten.

If you and your friends each gave the waiter a Ten, and the meal was 25, but he kept 2 for say...a tip, you'd each get three back.

25 dollars for the meal+3 dollars change+2 that the waiter took=30$.

Now I win.

Last edited by SysTray (2006-05-08 18:37:04)

SysTray wrote:

But they didn't pay 9 bucks for the meal, they paid ten.

If you and your friends each gave the waiter a Ten, and the meal was 25, but he kept 2 for say...a tip, you'd each get three back.

25 dollars for the meal+3 dollars change+2 that the waiter took=30$.

Now I win.

ok How they payd 10 if they got back a 1 bucks each ? if u give waiter 10 I give him 10 and Mowgli gives him 10 he comes back and gives me 1 buck gives u 1 buck and gives mowgli 1 buck then we payd 9 bucks each not 10

9 times 3 of us is 27 waiter stolen 2 is 29 there is Buck missing

Last edited by badhq (2006-05-08 18:39:08)

35 KPH.

Wait...this IS a quiz about two trains leaving Syndey, right?

The meal only costs 25 dollars. They pay the guy 30, he steals two, the meal is 25, that leaves three left over.

it appears I am too late...

Last edited by Skruples (2006-05-08 18:42:51)

DavidianCox wrote:

there is no missing $. look the total meal cost $25 dollas which works out at $8.3333 each. BUT the waiter takes an extra $2 for himself making it a total of $27. there fore leaving $3 left, $1 each. it is simple maths and miss directing the reader.

Yes, or you could look at it what was any say that the waiter took .666666whatever7 from each of them. 8.3 repeating plus .06 repeating DOES equal 9. 9 dollars times 3 people, plus the 3 in change also equals 30.

Man, you can't have a missing dollar. Whoever made that riddle can't do math.

http://mathpwned.ytmnd.com/

Last edited by SysTray (2006-05-08 18:47:05)

My guess..
"Waiter steals 2 Bux"

30-2 = 28

Pineycone wrote:

My guess..
"Waiter steals 2 Bux"

30-2 = 28

Wrong

Sgt.Bulldog wrote:

The math just doesn't seem to add up.I've went over it aleast 10 times.There must be sometihing i'm missing.But i'm gonna take a wild guess and say the cheif got the other buck.

Wrong

Lol Keep tryng guys 1 of you will get it

The problem is at the end.

How do you get 29?  You take the value ultimately payed by the 3 people and add it to value ultimately received by the waiter.  It's like comparing apples and oranges.

The problem is that the question is always cleverly phrased to
conceal what is really going on.  Since I don't want to just
give you the answer, I will tell you how I think about it and
see if you understand it.

First let's locate all that money.

There are two ways to think about how much money is out there to
be found.The way that this question is tricky is that it
combines that two ways.

The first way is this.
How much money did the guys pay originally?

The second way is this.
How much money did they end up paying?

So if it is the first way, then clearly the total we need to
acccount for is 30.  So let's see what happens to that 30
dollars.  The owner keeps 25, the clerk gets 2 and the guys get
3 back.

Hey, that adds up fine.

Now let's look at the second way.

How much money did they end up paying?  Well 27 dollars, and 25
of it went to the owner and 2 to the clerk.

Hey, that adds up too.

The problem with the question is that the the two dollars that
the clerk gets are contained in the 27 dollars that they end up
paying so we shouldn't expect them to add to anything
meaningful.

Last edited by SysTray (2006-05-08 18:55:09)