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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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They only overpay the $2. The bill was $25, but they paid $27 [with the $2 pocketed]. 30-25=5, 3 to the customer, 2 to the waiter.
You're going the wrong way with the $2, it's the over payment for the $25 bill, not additional currency outside the $9 next from each. ie, 27-2=25, not 27+2=29 [an irrelevant sum].
06-04-2009, 10:41 AM
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