[narf poit chez BOOM]

3 men rent a room at a local hotel
The hotel owner charges each man $10.00 for a total of $30.00 for the night
Later the hotel owner decides to cut the men a break and gives the Bellhop $5.00 and tells him to give it to the men.
The Bellhop decides to keep $2.00 for himself and gives each man $1.00 back.
This now means that each man paid $9.00 for his part of the room. $9.00 x 3 men = $27.00 + the $2.00 the Bellhop kept comes to a grand total of $29.00. What happend to the Last $1.00?

30 men
5 bellhop
3 split to men
2 split to bellhop
25 what it would have been after the deduction
3 what was the deduction
28 what it was after the deduction
2 what the bellhop got
30 the total

it works there. i'm not sure why it doesn't work in your example.

aw. Jack got there first.

[ July 22, 2003, 07:09: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]