Right then

Three soldiers went into a resturant and had a meal that came to ₤30. They split into between them and payed ₤10 each. The manager comes down and says that they get a ₤5 discount. So the waitress goes and gets ₤5 out of the till but she couldn't divide it by 3 so she gave then ₤1 each and slipped the other ₤2 in her pocket.

But 3 X ₤9 = ₤27 + ₤2 (for the 2 she slipped into her pocket) = ₤29... Where did the other ₤1 go

I'm pretty confused right now...

Yeeeeah. Not sure what the conversions for Euros to American dollars are.

P=₤10
3p-₤5+₤2=₤27
₤30-₤27=₤3
oh carp....o_O were did it go?

That's one confusing way of trying to find it out saphire :rolleyes:

lolz, but itts MY way -_o

Yeah mine can be pretty confusing even when I try to figure out what i've just written

:lol: wow

thats easy.
the government took it. (taxes)

Actually that's wrong
Tax was included

By all rights all the money should be there, the only way I can figure it wouldn't have dissappeared is if you take the inital full price of 30, then refund the 1 for each person (so 3) and have the 2 for the waitress.

Yes but why does 9X3 +2 = 29? but there should be 30?

because you apply the 1 dollar back after the division between the 3, so it's multiplying 9 by 3 equalling 27 + 2 = 29, instead of having the 30 total - 3 = 27 /3 = 9 and the 2 the waitress kept making the total 30, make sense?

Ok let me get this right before I try this out.

There's three soldiers who walk into the resturaunt. The full price of their meal is $30(P). The manager gives them a five dollar discount, but the waitress can't figure out how to divide 5 by three. So she sticks two dollars in her pocket and gives each one.

The actual problem would be this though. Because she had to get the five dollars out of the till?, they already paid the thirty dollars.

10x3=30

30-5= 25

Each person actually got one dollar back which means the total should be $25 with a remainder of three from the discount. The waitess of course has the other two dollars.This works out to thirty because 25+3= 28 and + the 2 dollars the waitress kept is 30 dollars.

An equation might look like this:

p=3x
30=3(10)
30=(30-5)+3+2

And that's where the dollar went, my equation might be sloppy and have some unnecassary work... Not sure.

o_O this is why i hate math -_-'

I'm pretty sure there really is no extra dollar. It really works out together.

cant u jus giv us the answer? o_O did the manager take it or sumthing? math isnt one of my strong points :-_-:

Honestly I think I'm right. I don't know where the 9*3 comes from.

Wouldn't it seem more logical that they paid it first and that's the reason the person had to go to the till in order to get the five dollar discount? See then they'd each get a dollar from the discount, 3 + the 2 that the waitress keeps which is five. Equals out to thiry...(I feel a bit redundant now.)

Thats what I said... I believe it disappared because of the way the math was done.

Oh. :p I didn't understand correctly what you were saying quite then. But yeah, that's probably it.

Well Sae and VZ figure it out...

The 9 x 3 comes from the army soldiers having 9 each

But the only way this problem would work was if they already paid ten each for the thirty they owed. Then the waitress would go ack to the till for the five dollar discount. Then they would keep 3 dollars(one each) which would give you the remainder, and the waitress would have the extra two. The 9*3 really doesn't fit into the problem.

yeah that ture it did said they paid 10 each not 9 each beacuse it was

30 for the meal and they paid for it but the manger said they get 5 back but the solder got 3 and the waitess got 2 so it suched be

10x3
30-3

so that mean they only got a 3 dolar discount

so their is no exta money becuse the waitess took 2

Well, technically they still got the 5 dollar discount. The other two dollars could be considered her tip, if she was that good a waitress. But then if you look at it the other way, they got a three dollar discount.

yeah it like what u said their is no exta dollar

I KNOW THE ANSWER!!! ok u guys said 9x3 when they only paid 10 each plus that 5 dollar discount right well look at it this way; since they got the discount they only paid nine because the 1 of 10 was taken out thanks to the discount! still didn't got it? ok it's simple really

10x3=30-3(from the 5 dollar discount)=27+2(form the waitress)=29

that's why the equation was missing something! :)