04 Apr 05
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I’ve thought about this and I cant figure it out…am I being thick?
3 men in café, have food, bill comes to £30 so they give waiter £10 each.
Apparently waiter got bill wrong - it should have been £25. So manager gives him £5 to take back to men.
He decides to pocket £2 and give them each £1 back (because they won't know).
How much therefore did each man pay? (£9 surely….£10 - £1 back?)
3 x 9 = 27
Plus £2 in waiter’s pocket = £29!
Where did other £1 go?
Edit: appalling grammar!
04 Apr 05
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Originally posted by kw72ukIf this is a two-part question then the first part is easy. 😵
I’ve thought about this and I cant figure it out…am I being thick?
3 men in café, have food, bill comes to £30 so they give waiter £10 each.
Apparently waiter got bill wrong - it should have been £25. So manager gives him £5 to take bac ...[text shortened]... ocket = £29!
Where did other £1 go?
Edit: appalling grammar!
As for the secnd part, there is no missing pound.
You are wrongly assuming that 27 + 2 should equal 30.
$27 has been paid out.
The cafe has $25 and the waiter has $2.
End of story.
Let the 3 men pay 3x
Let the overcharge be y
Let y be of the form 3n + k where k is the amount that the waiter keeps
The waiter gives back 3n to the men so that they have now paid 3x - 3n in total
The problem says that 3x - 3n + k should equal 3x
This is only true when k = 3n
But in your problem k = 2 and 3n = 3
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04 Apr 05
Originally posted by kw72ukWell for one thing the men paid a total of 27 /30 paid 3 returned/
I’ve thought about this and I cant figure it out…am I being thick?
3 men in café, have food, bill comes to £30 so they give waiter £10 each.
Apparently waiter got bill wrong - it should have been £25. So manager gives him £5 to take back to men.
He decides to pocket £2 and give them each £1 back (because they won't know).
How much therefore did each ...[text shortened]... 9 = 27
Plus £2 in waiter’s pocket = £29!
Where did other £1 go?
Edit: appalling grammar!
(the bill was 25 and the waiter kept 2 so 25+2 = 27)
Now to look at it the other way around each paid 9 or 27 paid total,minus 2 taken by the waiter equals 25 = the bill.
So there is really nothing missing.
04 Apr 05
Originally posted by THUDandBLUNDERI think I already knew the answer to the first part.....I am indeed thick!! 😕
If this is a two-part question then the first part is easy. 😵
As for the secnd part, there is no missing pound.
You are wrongly assuming that 27 + 2 should equal 30.
$27 has been paid out.
The cafe has $25 and the waiter has $2.
End of story.
Let the 3 men pay 3x
Let the overcharge be y
Let y be of the form 3n + k where k is th ...[text shortened]... 3n + k should equal 3x
This is only true when k = 3n
But in your problem k = 2 and 3n = 3
.