Missing Dollar Puzzle (SOLUTION)
The puzzle asks to find the missing dollar, but is there actually a missing dollar? To understand what is going on, we can make a breakdown of the transactions:
The three customers give the hotel $30.
The hotel gives the bellhop $5.
The bellhop gives the customers $3.
This means that the three customers paid $27 total. The bellhop received $2 total and the hotel received $25 total. The total paid is $27 and the total received is $27. So, everything checks out and there is no missing dollar!
The puzzle involved an incorrect addition, namely $27 + $2 = $29. $27 is the total amount paid by the customers and $2 is the total amount received by the bellhop. There is no reason to add these numbers! And there is no missing dollar!
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