Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Missing Dollar Paradox

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The result of the debate was KEEP. Tagged and listed for expansion. -Splash 03:26, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Missing Dollar Paradox
This is something that people would forward in emails to friends who are deadly bored in their cubicles. It sounds scientific, but it's not, thus there is no hope for expansion. Renata3 19:36, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd keep and expand this. It's actually a notable lateral thinking problem, almost on par with today's featured article (the Monty Hall problem).  -- Grev -- Talk 20:24, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Lateral thinking as an example (or delete - don't keep)- there are hundreds of these things around - they are not individually encyclopaedic. --Doc (?) 20:30, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand - this is an annoying puzzle that I've seen in far too many places. A good centralized explanation to people of how it works would be useful. Not sure that this is the best name for it, though.DS 13:37, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand -- like the Monty Hall problem which was recently a featured article of the day, this is a well-known "paradox" (falsely so-called) which can be used to elucidate related subjects. --FOo 15:51, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

Wikipedia has a long winded rambling explanation. It just math. Simple math. Instead of adding the Bellhop's 2 bucks to the 27 paid by 3 guests, just add it to the clerk's 25 bucks. then the equation balances. Or subtract it from the guests 27 bucks - do not add it.

ie the motel has 25, the bellhop has 2 and the guests are out 27. there are 3 deep pockets - not two.

Just a word puzzle. So helps to restate the events. Or remove the Bellhop. So it is the clerk that keeps the 2 bucks. and gives the bellhop 3 bucks to refund to 3 guests. Bellhops are not too bright?

For a real life puzzle:

Pretend the Guests are TDY and filing a government voucher and get a kick back. Or they stay in same room but claim 3 rooms. Get fake bills from the motel. What happened to the Taxpayer's money?

Other puzzle is why they stay in a 5 star hotel when a 3 star motel is their standard normally. Pretend the 3 travelers are government contractors instead of government workers? haha. and triple the cost to pay for political bribes and donations to campaigns.

Again, what happens to the Taxpayers money? Palm60 (talk) 20:13, 1 March 2021 (UTC)