Scottie wrote: 3 guests check into a hotel. The price is $30 per night. The 3 of them split the bill, each paying $10. Later, the front desk discover a mistake and realize it should have only $25. The manager gives 5 $1 bills to the bell boy. To make things easy, the bell boy gives each of the 3 guest $1 back and keeps the other $2.
So each guest paid $9 now. $9x3=27 + the $2 that he kept=$29. Where did the missing dollar go?
The problem is here: "$9x3=27 + the $2 that he kept=$29"
For a correct reflection of what happened, the formula is $9x3=27 MINUS the $2 that he kept=$25.
Thanks for the answer. I suppose Tarski and others here would have immediately seen the fallacy in that question. It had me going for a while though. I suppose this is how financial con artists work.
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Scottie wrote:Maybe I'm just dumb, but can someone explain why it's 5 cents??
x+y=1.10 x-y=1 subtract second equation from the first to get 2y=.10, then y=.05
who says you will never use algebra?! LOL
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DarkHelmet wrote: I suppose Tarski and others here would have immediately seen the fallacy in that question. It had me going for a while though. I suppose this is how financial con artists work.
The hotel and the bellboy combined are in the end up by 25+2=27 dollars. The 3 guests have paid out 3X9=27 dollars. 27=27 What is the problem?
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo