This riddle will take a bit of figuring out, i heard it a long time ago, on holiday with my family and my father told it me, its stuck in my head like gum. The beuty of it, he didnt tell me what the answer was, at the time i thought there was no explanation.
Tonight i was scanning around and saw it on a site, and it had an answer, and it made sense!
So ill share it. Dont cheat by scrolling down to see answers, until u truly give up.
Here goes!
Theres 3 men on a buliders yard, they thought they could do with some music to listen to while working, so they went down to the local shop and bought a radio for £30. Each man paid £10 each.
After the 3 men left the shop, the shop assistant realised that there was a discount on that radio, and it was only £25, so he gave £5 to a helper to run after the men and give them there money back. The helper didnt know how to split the money so that each man got equal, so he gave £1 to each of the men and the builders insisted the helper kept the £2 spare as he was kind enough to run after the builders to give them their change.
So lets sum up, each man paid £10 each, they then got £1 back, which means each paid £9 so :
3 x 9 = 27
27 + 2 (which the helper kept) = 29
Wheres the missing £ gone?
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Putting a few lines so u cant see posts fro mthe bottom of the puzzle :happyroll:
Anyway, enjoy :bananamad: