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CHOCOLATE MATH

(This puzzle works ... but how?)

This takes less than a minute. Work it out as you read along. Don't scroll to the bottom until you've worked it out. This is not one of those waste of
time things -- it's just a bit of fun!

1. First, pick the number of times a week that you would like to eat
chocolate ...
(more than once but less than 10 times)

2. Multiply this number by 2 ...

3. Now add 5 ...

4. Multiply this number by 50 ...

5. If you've already had your birthday this year add 1755 ...
If you haven't had your birthday yet add 1754 ...

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born ...

You should now have a three digit number.

The first digit of this was your original number (how many times you want to
eat chocolate each week).

The next two numbers are ...

YOUR AGE! :ph34r:


P.S. let me know if it doesn't work~~~
IF you are going to be Stupid - you better be tough!


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Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????

--Just thought this was a fun riddle...but yes, it does involve a little grade school math...:S

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so the three friend were overcharged 1.67 each.

The guy from the hotel returned one dollar each. Meaning they were still overcharged .67 each. (Three times two-thirds) So the bellhop gave out three dollars and kept the remaining two dollars for himself. In other words, the bellhop gave out the extra dollar to the guests. He pocketed two dollars and returned three.
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Dogs do it on 3 legs, ladies do it sitting down, gentlemen do it standing up.

What are they doing?
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Peeing :P

In response to the hotel overcharge.
The trick is that you are supposed to subtract the bellhops $2 from the total not add it in.

The 3 men paid 9 each thats 27
Subtract the bellhops 2 from 27 to get 25
That is the true cost of what the room was after the initial $5 refund


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