There is no extra 1#. The three old ladies paid 25# for the meal and 2# to
the waiter (27#) and got 3# back which totals 30#.
At 08:18 PM 2/4/98 -0000, Phil Raby <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk> wrote:
>Thre old ladies go to a restuarant for a meal. The bill comes to =A330, so
they pay =A310 each. The waiter takes their money to the manager who says.
"They're old-age pensioners, give them a =A35 discount."
>
>The waiter thinks that it is too hard to spilt =A35 three ways, so he gives
the ladies =A31 each and pockets the extra =A32.
>
>The ladies, who paid =A310 each, get =A31 back each, which means they paid =
=A39
each.
>
>Three nines are =A327, which leaves =A33 spare. The waiter took =A32, so wh=
at's
happened to the extra =A31?
>
>The happily well-fed ladies leave the restuarant and drive off in their
MGFs (nice bit of MG content there!)
>
>
>
>Philip Raby
>Editor, MG World
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>
>
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