{"id":51,"date":"2010-07-13T15:42:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T15:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathriddles.williams.edu\/?p=51"},"modified":"2025-01-27T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:41:32","slug":"taxing-your-monetary-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/difficulty\/medium\/taxing-your-monetary-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxing Your Monetary Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men were on a business trip and had to stay in a hotel over night. The price of the room was $30.00, so the men decided to split one room, three ways.  Each one paid $10.00.  Well, after they paid, the manager realized that he overcharged them on their room.  The room only cost $25.00, so he gave the bellboy five one dollar bills to give to the three men.  On his way up to the room the bell boy was trying to think of a way to split $5.00 three ways. After thinking about it awhile, he decided to keep $2.00 for himself and give each man $1.00 back.  Now, if each man (who paid $10.00) gets $1.00 back that means they each paid $9.00 ($10.00 &#8211; $1.00 = $9 ).  $9.00 multiplied by three (because there are three men) equals $27.00 plus the $2.00 the bell boy kept equals $29.00!  What happened to the missing dollar?<\/p>\n<p>Communicated by Bob Fischer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men were on a business trip and had to stay in a hotel over night. The price of the room was $30.00, so the men decided to split one room, three ways. Each one paid $10.00. Well, after they paid, the manager realized that he overcharged them on their room. The room only cost&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algebra","category-medium"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/mathriddles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}