Vacation Hotel
Three friends are on a vacation and need to rent a room for the night. The hotel attendant asks for $30. They each pay him $10 for the total of $30. The next day the attendant realizes that he overcharged the men. He should have charged them only $25 total for the room. He asks the bellhop to give them $5 back. The bellhop figures that they won’t know the difference so he gives them each $1 back. Now here is the question: If they originally paid $10 and got a dollar back then they collectively paid $27 for the room. Yet, the bellhop is pocketing $2. Twenty seven dollars plus two dollars equals twenty nine dollars. Where did the extra dollar go?