MATHS PROBLEM :>>

by Deactivated6376 • 14 Dec 2006, 19:11 • Journals
Ok 3 people @ restaurant pay 30 pounds (10 pounds each) to the waiter for their bill, the waiter gives it to his manager who gives him 5 pounds back for discount, the waiter takes 2 pounds out of this 5 pounds and puts it in his pocket and gives only 3 pounds back to the customers (so they paid 9 pounds each now), so they paid 27 pounds in total, and the waiter took out 2 pounds = 29 pounds ... the bill was 30 pounds ... where did the 1 pound go?

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Meth 14 Dec 2006, 19:16
30 - 5 = 1 pound for each customer +2

they payed 28!
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Krein 14 Dec 2006, 19:16
Its a logical mistake. You just cant take those 2 pound from the 30 pound they have payed firstly. They payed 27 pound (30 - 3x1). And the waiter takes 2 pound from those 27 pounds. 27 - 2 = 25 and the bill is correct.
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w0ot 14 Dec 2006, 19:17
the customers pay 28 pounds instead of 27.
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cointozz 14 Dec 2006, 19:17
ITS THE FUCKING STATE I TELL U AND THEIR FUCKING TAXES

ANARCHY FTW!
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Adacore 14 Dec 2006, 19:18
The problem is in this statement: "(so they paid 9 pounds each now), so they paid 27 pounds in total". That's just not true - (30-5)=25, 25+3=28, not 27; 28/3=9.33, not 9.

EDIT: Actually, I think I misread the question, I'll try again!
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perforator 14 Dec 2006, 19:19
ehm, 28/3 is 9.33
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Adacore 14 Dec 2006, 19:31
Sorry, my brain is dead from working on my final year project report. And I've still got another 20 pages to write for tomorrow morning.
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perforator 14 Dec 2006, 19:34
Well, good luck then :P
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Deactivated6376 14 Dec 2006, 19:19
think of it like this, if ur the customer, u paid 10 quid each, then the waiter gives u 3 quid back (u dont know it's 5 quid), then u paid 9 quid each ...
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Adacore 14 Dec 2006, 19:27
As Krein said - it's a logic mistake, you shouldn't add on the amount the waiter took, you should subtract it, since the bill was actually £25 (including the discount). The customers think the bill was £27, but what the customers think is irrelevant.

The restaurant received 30-5=25. The customers paid 30-3=27, the difference between the 25 and 27 is the £2 pocketed by the waiter.
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Anark 14 Dec 2006, 19:34
yep, that's it!
the turns and more turns that the problem give, leads us to think as if we were the customers, and we should look at it as an outsider.
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Nxzor 14 Dec 2006, 19:26
they robbed the restaurant and got there 1 quid back !!!!
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Spirea 14 Dec 2006, 19:29
manager got 25 pounds, waiter 2 and customers 1 each, makes 30 in total
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Adacore 14 Dec 2006, 19:32
That's a nice simple way of putting it :D
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sliqk 14 Dec 2006, 19:35
30 - 3(money they got back) - 2(money the waiter took) = 25

u cant say 30-3+2=29
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slajdan 14 Dec 2006, 19:45
30-3-2=25
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sliqk 14 Dec 2006, 20:21
yes thats what i said
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Nxzor 14 Dec 2006, 19:43
The waiter toke extra money for his retarded cousin
image: owndbyaretardgp4
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REIJORETARDI 14 Dec 2006, 19:51
LOL WTF HOW OLD R U :D:D:D:D::D:D:D:DD easy as fuck.

we have to calc binaries :-c
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ISEN 14 Dec 2006, 19:56
it went to the guy with to much time on his hands.
btw hello kamz:)
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steel 14 Dec 2006, 20:53
hei how are ya!
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