Very Strange Riddle!

[monoVertex]

the real question is when added up, why do you end up with 29 and not 30? .

Another mistery of the world

 

[SFilip]

> the real question is when added up, why do you end up with 29 and not 30?
because you aren't supposed to add them that way in the first place.
the cd player costs $25, $2 is stolen meaning they payed a total of $27 for it. 27/3=9 - that's how much each of them payed and this is correct.
so $25 (the actual price) + $2 (the stolen money) + $3 (the change) = $30.
in other words the $27 in the original post is not price + change (each of them gave $9, they are not giving what they got back, duh), its price + the stolen money.

 

[DM Cross]

Why do you miss a dollar when adding?

Because you're subtracting 3 and adding 2.

 

[denmax]

even if i posted late T_T

bcuz only 2 dollars were taken, one of the girls (if the salesman wasnt greedy and the first cost of the player is $28) payed 10 dollars but the other two payed 9.

so you wont do 9 x 3 = 27 but 9 x 2 + 10 = 28

there problem solved

you got wrong bcuz you minused $1 for each of the girls while only $2 was taken...

if they were refunded with the full price with the greedy bastard, 10 dollars was payed back to one girl but 2 girls got 9 dollars

 

[DM Cross]

Uh. Wrong.

Each girl got 1 dollar back each. So they all paid the same price.

 

[Jindo]

you got wrong bcuz you minused $1 for each of the girls while only $2 was taken...

lol you misread .

The SALESMAN took $2 from the $5 he was supposed to give them, they all got 3 .

 

[bengy89]

If they would have paid $25 they would have paid 8.33333333... not $9 each.

They dollar is missing because of... (lol don't know the word in english).
It's "avrundning" in Swedish, maybe some other swede can translate.

thats a great help dude - thanks i now understand the riddle
(my mum is swedish - is a great country)

 

[bengy89]

avrundning means rounding off, for anyone out there who is a loser and doesnt know any swedish.

 

[bengy89]

i have re-enacted this scenario with four of my friends and 30 pieces of paper. it was fun.

 

[NexFrost]

Like the old saying "You cant apples to Oranges" Each girl payed $10 for total of $30, if later they get $5 back u cant evenly split it between the 3 girls so u can not add the 2 factors together, becuse 5/3 is 1.66666..... which means even if the greedy guy had not taken the money 2 girls would get $1.67 and the other one would get $1.66

Now if they saved $6 and the greedy guy pocket $3 you could add them together to get $30

 

[DM Cross]

Wow, almost 2 month necropost Bad!

Seriously... This thread's pretty much died. Let it R.i.P.