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(Message started by: Radiohead_man on Dec 8^th, 2004, 8:40am)

Title: Three men
Post by Radiohead_man on Dec 8^th, 2004, 8:40am

Three men are travelling in a car. The car breaks down and they look for
a mechanic to repair the car. They are charged Thirty (30) Dollars and
they each pay 10 Dollars to make up the charge. So after the car is
repaired the are set to go. The mechanic realises that he had over
charged them by 5 Dollars and he gives his son to take back the change
to three guys. The son thinks to himself "How can 3 people share 5
Dollars?" and so he takes 2 Dollars and for himself and gives back each
of the three 1 Dollar.

Effectively this means that each of the three guys paid 9 Dollars
because they have 1 Dollar change from the 10 Dollars they each paid. 9
Dollars times three guys equals 27 Dollars plus the 2 Dollars the boy
took comes to 29 Dollars.. What happened to the 1 Dollar?

Title: Re: Three men
Post by Foolish on Dec 8^th, 2004, 1:54pm

This is already on the Riddle list, and in the forums.

Title: Re: Three men
Post by DeMark on Dec 16^th, 2004, 11:37am

Yeah... 5 or 6 times, I'd say.

Title: Re: Three men
Post by John_Gaughan on Dec 17^th, 2004, 7:50am

on 12/08/04 at 08:40:37, Radiohead_man wrote:

What happened to the 1 Dollar?

Sorry, I was hungry so I picked up a pack of Twinkies while waiting around at the service station. Look on the bright side: if I eat enough Twinkies, maybe I will absorb the preservatives and become immune to nuclear radiation. After all, only cockroaches and Twinkies survive nuclear blasts.