OK, clever maths peeps - explain this to me (because it's making my head hurt)

[marthamoo]

My friend told me this today:

3 men go to an hotel and ask for a room for a night. The manager tells them a room will be ?30 so they give him ?10 each and go up to their room (stop it! I know where your minds are going with this!)

Then the manager remembers they have a special offer on and rooms are only ?25. So he calls the porter, explains the situation, and gives him ?5 to give back to the 3 men.

The porter takes the money and heads upstairs but on the way he starts thinking "well, ?5 doesn't really divide between 3" and he pockets ?2 and gives them a ?1 back each. That means each man has paid ?9.

Now...3 lots of ?9 makes ?27, and the porter pocketed ?2 - so what happened to the other pound?

Yes. No. I want some whine.

No, it was someone else's sanitary towel.

Didn't pass English either eh?

I got As in English.

or that'll be £25 please

bugger how much is that each? £25 / 3 = £8.33 1/3 each

anybody got 33p?

oh feck it here gimme £9 each .. here hotel man here's £27 .. £2 for the porter to carry the bags

Did I say I've had a really bad day? Don't pick on me, Dragon, with your A in maths and your fiery breath. Or I'll...cow pat you.

I am saddened to discover that I know what sanitary towel you're thinking of .. I spend far too long on here [sigh]

Twig, you are Not Helping.

"I want some whine" ????

this is fun

Yes! The Porter told them it cost £28, that's what.

Yes there was a £30 payment - in the men's heads.

God that killed me - what is the sound of 15 synapses expiring at once?

I am too

why aren't I helping

you got an A in English .. read my response

there is no other £1, why would there be

the men paid out £27 .. they porter got £2 of it

WHAT DON'T YOU GET

Oh arse - actually I got a B for English You were blocking leaky windows with someone else's sanitary towel? (Have completly forgotten how to spell or punctuate now)

You obviously don't spend enough time on here, soupy - someone said whine for wine on another thread and I've seen it a few more times since (like brian for brain?)

Cos you started talking about 33p!

That doesn't make it right

Oh I thought Soupy was sniggering at my where/were confusion.

Link to the sanitary towel incident please or is it not suitable reading whilst eating tea?

I was trying to divide £25 by 3 men which makes it bloody difficult because it would be £8.33 and 1/3rd of a penny each

but it becomes much easier if its a multiple of 3 .. so the closest number is £27 which means £9 each given

then they just bung the porter a £2 tip and pay the hotel £25

I may be crap at maths but by God I'm good at links

you have to ask yourself whether a recycler is going scrape out used ST's from the bottom of a recycling pack though.
perhaps they should have recycled the recycling bag!

god - all this cycling is knackering

Oh poor you marthamoo - that is gross!