Missing dollar

[Fox Mc Cloud]

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go?

[Countolaf]

You should do 27 - 2 = 25 to find the value the value the motel received, because if the bellhop gave the 27 dollars to the motel then there would be 27 dollars with the motel and 3 with the friends, but since the bellhop took $2 there would be $3 with the friends, $2 with the bellhop and $25 with the motel. 25 + 3 + 2 = 30

To make things clear:

Friends	Bellhop	Motel
30	0	0
0	5	25
3	2	25

[Fox Mc Cloud]

Nice done .

[elpancho81]

Kind of confusing, because you can see it with a different and wrong point of view. (30-3+2) and it's, as said before, 25 motel +3 friends +2 bellhop