Lets see who can answer this...

thariq2005

Praise be to Allah!
:salam2:

Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1? :p

Wa salamu 'alaikkum wa rahmathullah.
 

ahmed_indian

to Allah we belong
maybe the bellboy bought the fodder for somebody' smiling cow with that pound :D:D:D

its mind boggling brother...i dont think anybody cant solve it :D

and Allah knows best
 

abubaseer

tanzil.info
Staff member
:salam2:

There is no missing 1.

25 Paid to the Hotel
2 with the Bell Boy
===
27 They paid total to bell boy + Hotel = (9 x 3)

Where are missing 3 ? they received 1 each.
 

thariq2005

Praise be to Allah!
salamu 'alaikkum, since there is a lot of confusion in the answer, I have decided to leave it in this cloud of confusion. I love it when people are confused ;)
 

Asja

Pearl of Islaam
:salam2:

Jazzak Allah khair for sharing dear brother. Inshallah I will try.:shymuslima1:

Is it maybe that the one 1£ that is missing is with bellboy because he did not payed to third persone and he kept that 1£ with himselfe?:)
So our bellboy kept 3 £ with himselfe and with 2 £ that he gave it makes it 5£

May Allah bless you:tti_sister:

:wasalam:
 

thariq2005

Praise be to Allah!
:salam2:

Jazzak Allah khair for sharing dear brother. Inshallah I will try.:shymuslima1:

Is it maybe that the one 1£ that is missing is with bellboy because he did not payed to third persone and he kept that 1£ with himselfe?:)
So our bellboy kept 3 £ with himselfe and with 2 £ that he gave it makes it 5£

May Allah bless you:tti_sister:

:wasalam:

Hehe keep tryin sister :p
 

BinteShafi

Left long ago
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9 x 3 = 27 = 25 +2 [25 with the manager and 2 with the bellboy]

1 x 3 = 3 [ 1 with each one of them]


So

27 +3 =30

Pls do not count the 2 pounds (with the bellboy twice). 27 +2 = 29 is wrong as 2 is already included in 27. Rather it is 27 +3 = 30.

:wasalam:

PS: I could find the sign of pound on my key board.
 

thariq2005

Praise be to Allah!
Assalamu Allaicum

Can you help us a little dear brother Inshallah??? Maybe to give us some clues???

:wasalam:

Wa 'alaikkumus salam wa rahmathullah, sister binteshafi got the answer right, and all the people who said there is no missing £1 got it right, because there is no missing £1 lol ;)
 

BinteShafi

Left long ago
:salam2:

That was fun. Jazak Allah for sharing brother but I did not like the dishonesty of the bellboy :shymuslima1:

:wasalam:
 

Asja

Pearl of Islaam
Wa 'alaikkumus salam wa rahmathullah, sister binteshafi got the answer right, and all the people who said there is no missing £1 got it right, because there is no missing £1 lol ;)


:salam2:

Jazzak Allah khair dear brother. Mashallah,it was very interesting.:)

:wasalam:
 

Al-Kashmiri

Well-Known Member
Staff member
As-salaamu `alaykum

Lol. It's not googling. It's just a matter of how you word it. If you look over the actual riddle, it's worded in a way/calculated in a way such that there appears to be a missing pound. But others have clearly shown this isn't the case. I was going to do so myself, but thought I'd give the chance to others.
 

brand-new22

Junior Member
25 - paid to the hotel
2 - to the bellboy
= 27 - they paid total including the bell boy
+ 3 to the people.
Total = 30
 
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