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Originally Posted by MediaCenterJunkie
3 friends go out to eat.
They get the bill and it is $25, but they don't really look at it too close.
They each give the waiter a $10 bill.
The Waiter decides since he cannot split $5 evenly among 3 people he decides to pocket $2, meaning the group paid a total of $27.
So the group paid $27 ($9 each), and he has $2 in his pocket, equaling $29.
What happened to the other dollar?
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Apparently it went to the California Public School system because it didn't teach the students how to properly read and/or analyze word problems.