A Riddle
Three men are very tired and sleepy while traveling in a car. It's late at night and they can't find a hotel or motel since all of the rooms are booked. Finally they spot a mom-n-pop motel and decide to stop to see if there's a room available.
"We need a room", they cry to the old man behind the counter.
Old man: "Unfortunately I only have one room left, but it's got two beds and a couch."
"Perfect! We'll take it. How much will it be?"
"Thirty dollars."
The three men pay ten dollars each and then go to their room.
After about fifteen minutes the old man starts feeling guilty as the room is normally twenty five dollars a night. He calls his son over, gives him five one dollar bills and tells him to go to the room where the men are staying and refund their money back to them.
As the son is walking to the room, he decides to stuff two dollars into his pants pocket because he doesn't know how to break five dollars between three people.
He knocks on the door and when one of them men answers, he tells him they overpaid and hands him three dollar bills, one for each of them and then he walks away.
That would seem to be the end of it, right? Let's do the math. The men paid thirty dollars for the room. They get one dollar back apiece, meaning they paid nine dollars each.
9 x 3 = 27 + 2 (the two dollars that the son kept) = 29
What happened to the other dollar?
If you know the answer, please don't write it down just yet. Let others try to figure it out first.
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