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[KZNSeagull]

Better mop up after this thread before we get any more maggots crawling around.

Go back to swearing - you seem to be good at that.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Could I take this opportunity to remind my esteemed fellow posters of a sage piece of advice I once received: don't feed the troll.

 

[MattBackHome]

At first the diners have £10 each. = £30

At the end:

the diners have £1 each = £3
the restaurant has £25
the waiter has £2.

Which equals £30.

No money missing. No magic. Simples innit.

 

[jimbob5]

Puzzle from 'every day maths for adults'. 'The crooked waiter problem'. Author refers to a 'story about dividing up money that hardly anyone can get their head round'. In actual fact the waiter gives each lady a £1 change but 'slyly slips the other £2 in his pocket'. The trick is to make you add the £2 to the £27, instead of deduct it.

 

[Triggaaar]

3 peeps out for a meal. Initially waiter tells them the total bill is £30. They give him £10 each. The waiter realises the bill is wrong and should only be £25. He takes five pound coins from the till. He gives them back one quid each and they let him keep £2 as a tip.

The 3 customers have therefore paid £9 each which is £27 total and the waiter has kept £2. What has happened to the other pound? At the time of writing I genuinely don't know the answer! HELP

What other pound? There's the £27 total, which covers the £25 bill and the £2 tip, but you're still thinking of the £30 original payment, which is no longer relevant, as that bill was wrong and ignored.

The problem is they gave him £10 each which adds up to £30, got £1 back which means they paid £27, the waiter kept £2 and that only adds up to £29.

Yes, you're easily confused aren't you. You don't add the £27 to the £2, you take the £2 off of the £27 to get the £25 bill. The £30 is not relevant.

 

[jimbob5]

Puzzle from 'every day maths for adults'. 'The crooked waiter problem'. Author refers to a 'story about dividing up money that hardly anyone can get their head round'. In actual fact the waiter gives each lady a £1 change but 'slyly slips the other £2 in his pocket'. The trick is to make you add the £2 to the £27, instead of deduct it. I goggled it and got a similar story with an explanation which only 2 of you came close to giving me.

 

[Triggaaar]

At this point, after so many people explaining it, I'm inclined to think he's

I assumed that from the start.

What I like about this thread is that jimbob is going to have to admit that he's either a) a windup merchant (which would explain many previous posts) or b) a bit thick (which would explain many previous posts)

 

[Eeyore]

Then one of them says 'right so we've got a pound back each, so we have paid £9.66r each, for the meal and the tip and that adds up to £29. Hang on!

'When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.........'

 

[jimbob5]

What other pound? There's the £27 total, which covers the £25 bill and the £2 tip, but you're still thinking of the £30 original payment, which is no longer relevant, as that bill was wrong and ignored.
Yes, you're easily confused aren't you. You don't add the £27 to the £2, you take the £2 off of the £27 to get the £25 bill. The £30 is not relevant.

You did not know the answer other wise you would have been able to explain it. Once again. It is a genuine puzzle. You can google it. Not only are you a bit confused but you are too scared to admit it.

 

[Triggaaar]

Puzzle from 'every day maths for adults'. 'The crooked waiter problem'. Author refers to a 'story about dividing up money that hardly anyone can get their head round'. In actual fact the waiter gives each lady a £1 change but 'slyly slips the other £2 in his pocket'. The trick is to make you add the £2 to the £27, instead of deduct it.

But the trick didn't work on us, we're clearly too smart for you.

In fairness to the author, it's more confusing when told to you at speed, rather than written down in front of you.

So were you confused, or are you a troll?

 

[jimbob5]

I assumed that from the start.

What I like about this thread is that jimbob is going to have to admit that he's either a) a windup merchant (which would explain many previous posts) or b) a bit thick (which would explain many previous posts)

Help I being ganged up on again by the gay pervs!

 

[Prince Monolulu]

...that hardly anyone can get their head round'.

By that you mean you.

 

[Triggaaar]

You did not know the answer other wise you would have been able to explain it. Once again. It is a genuine puzzle. You can google it. Not only are you a bit confused but you are too scared to admit it.

Troll troll troll troll, troll troll troll troll.

Gonna have to be faster and smarter if you wanna catch me jimbob.

 

[jimbob5]

By that you mean you.

shove it yer ****!

 

[Prince Monolulu]

shove it yer ****!

Calm down dear, it's only a waiter

 

[Triggaaar]

Help I being ganged up on again by the gay pervs!

So you try to confuse us, and fail. You try to troll us, and fail. So now you result to homophobic abuse. Brilliant.

 

[jimbob5]

It is the perspective of where the money goes causing your confusion, whilst they pay £9 each, the restaurant only gets £8.33 each of that. Blame the waiter.

Nah sod it, blame Stockdale.

yes I should have used google too.

 

[jimbob5]

So you try to confuse us, and fail. You try to troll us, and fail. So now you result to homophobic abuse. Brilliant.

well you do seem to close ranks like a camp society quite a lot. I've nothing against homosexuals anyway.

 

[jimbob5]

Troll troll troll troll, troll troll troll troll.

Gonna have to be faster and smarter if you wanna catch me jimbob.

I'd rather catch herpes! Thank you for that tap in!

 

[Fungus]

I am not on a wind up. Only Guy Fawkes has really come close to explaining it. A lot of people have simply got their facts wrong in their attempt to explain. It is a genuine puzzle from a mathematician. I suspect some people can easily get their head round it but only Guy Fawkes has proved he can explain it. You might be a mathematician yourself but my gut feeling tells me not. Maybe you don't like the thread because you struggle with numbers.

It's not a number puzzle, it's a word trick.

But why did they give the waiter a tip for messing up the bill?