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?

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