Something To Make You Think...

im trying to figure it out but ive read it 4 times. wtf... thats crzy anyone got the answer

Dude you should be subtracting the 2 to get the 25 you should have been charged. Why are you adding the 2? You subtracted the 3 first, now you try to add the 2. hence one off.
3-2=1 30-3-2=25 30-3+2=29. You just got mixed up and added and subtracted in one function instead of adding both or subtracting both, easy. Back to school! Wait I dropped out........cheers!

"each man now pitched $9, (9x3=27), and the bellboy has the other $2(27+2=29), " what "other" 2 dollars....the two dollars the bell hop has is part of the 27. The men spent 27 dollars(9x3=27), 25 on the hotel 2 on the bell boy(25+2=27).

If you start with +30 dollars and you -5, you get +25 dollars.

30-5=25

If you give each guy 1 dollar back, -3... and the bell boy keeps -2, you get -5 making up the difference equalling +30.

If you do 9*3 = 27 you are assuming that each man started by paying only $9 dollars and makes you want to try to add the 2 the bell boy took to try and make up $30, when that is infact wrong.

9*3=27 is already subtracting the $3 dollars from the $5, leaving $2 left to subtract the bell boy took... equalling $25, $5 shorter than $30.

The wording of that question makes it very confusing... I like it- got any more?

duh thats a stupid question. im baked as hell and i know it...

what is so hard about it?

I didn't think it was stupid. I asked a few pretty smart people and at first thought they all came up with the same confused look until they wrote it down on paper. It is also in how you present the question. I liked it, a neat little play on words to kind of trick your mind into not wanting to add and subtract correctly.