Just messin with your minds.

[canatedian]

These aren’t necessarily jokes, but they are so weird that you’ll probably just start laughing after you read them anyway. That is until you start racking your brain trying to figure out how they work out how they do!

3 guys go for dinner, each buys a $10 steak. At the end of the meal, they collect $30 between the three of them to cover the cost of the meals and gives it to the waitress. She goes back to the cash register, where the overlooking manager says “Those dinners are discounted, you need to give them $5 back.” So the waitress gets the five dollars, and returns to the table. Not knowing how to split $5 between the three of them, she gives 1 dollar to each of the three patrons, and kept two for herself.

Now if you do the math, together they paid $30, got $3 back meaning they only paid $27. The waitress kept $2. This totals $29. Where did the last dollar go?

[anonymous]

don’t add the $2 to 27, subtract it…30-3-2=25

[gavitron]

“Now if you do the math, together they paid $30, got $3 back meaning they only paid $27. The waitress kept $2. This totals $29. Where did the last dollar go?”

– Thats right, they PAID $27 ($25 for steaks, $2 for tip) and still have $3 of the original $30

They had $30. $25 went to steaks, $2 went for tip, thats the $27 they spent (note: the tip is already accounted for). They still have $3, $27 (spent) plus $3 (kept) equals $30.

The problem is that people don’t think of the tip as part of the money spent because of the sentence “The waitress kept $2” which triggers the assumption that it is not yet accounted for. Then they strengthen your assumption by agreeing with you “This totals $29”.

Here it is with subtraction (correctly):
Total amount-steaks-tip=money left over
$30 – $25 – 2 = 3

Its a play on words that I’ve tried to explain to people many a time, the original statement is falsely stated, deal with it

What really happened: Together they paid $30, but their total expense was $27. So $3 was returned to them. This totals $30. No problem.

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