[Phillip Hill]

Some time ago (early this year in fact!)
Moyles told of a joke his father used to
do in a pub. It was a mathematical sum
come mind bender where three old ladies
pay for a meal but a pound goes missing?
It was quite funny but I cant remember it!!!
Does anybody remember it? And if so
could they please post it in detail!
Thank you so much!

Oh well!!

T.T.F.N!!

[pond life]

Uglybob

"Three old ladies go for a meal and a chat in a hotel, they get the Bill and it totals £15. The boss spots them and tells the waiter to only charge them £10. The waiter thinks to himself, yeah ill charge them £15 and keep the fiver. He has a change of heart and takes a pound out of each of the bills and he can keep the £2. But the problem is after he comes back he only has £1 left, Whys That?" Personally I don't care and Chris says there isn't really an answer and Chris tells people to stop ringing about it. He says a fellow rang up and said he trying for 40 minutes to get through to tell him the answer. Chris says that that person just wasted 40 minutes of his life.

February 22, 2002

[ASG]

Genius, pure genius...

[Phillip Hill]

Aaaah thats it!!!
Thank you!!

T.T.F.N!!

[Uglybob]

see im useful for something at last

[ASG]

Don't put yorself down like that, I'm sure your a lovely person really apart from the whole dancing Jesus thing...

[Uglybob]

its not Jesus, its Tom Hanks in Castaway

[pond life]

ugh TOM HANKS!!!!!
Uglybob - I could just cope with the boogying christ (i thought its cos he is Irish), but Hanks

You are on the road to perdition man

[M+L Fan II]

Well it doesn't really make much sense, but I think this is what the puzzle was supposed to be.

£15
-£3 for the old ladies
=£12
£3 pound left over instead of £2.
Well actually no.
You deduct the £2 that the waiter kept.
£15
-£3 for the old ladies
-£2 for the waiter
=£10
-£15
=£5(3x£1 + 1x£2)

[ASG]

Tom Hanks isn't irish! Oh well! I thought that the film Castaway was just a cheap follow up to BIG, you know, he gets put in a place he thinks he wants to go and it ends up he doesn't...there are too many other similarities to name...

[LE_VEY]

Morals, tell them the answer!!

[Sidders]

I don't get this puzzle. I understood it perfectly at the time, but you lot have confused me.

[Phillip Hill]

****Sidla*****

Thats you and me both then!
At the time it was a real mind
bender but now its just a load
of numbers that dont make sense!
Can ANYBODY Re-Write the
joke just so that us dumb folk
can laugh at it once again????

Ta!

T.T.F.N!!

[Sidders]

I didn't think it was a mind bender at the time I understood it perfectly, I just thought chris was a bit thick because he thought there was no solution to it, when really it's just a trick question. But I agree that now it's just a load of random numbers.

[Morals]

Morals, tell them the answer!!

Basically, it goes something like this....

the waiter reasons that £5 would be difficult to split between three people, so he pocketed £2 and gave £1 to each person.
Now each person paid £5 and got back £1. So they paid £4 each, totalling £12. The waiter had pocketed £2, totalling £14.

So, where is the remaining quid?

[Sidders]

oh yeah, I get it now. You can't add the £2 that the waiter pocketed on because that would have taken away from the total not added to it. Therefore the ladies paid £6 each totaling £12. Of the £12, £10 went in the till just like the boss wanted, and the remaining £2 went in the waiters pocket (and was no doubt spent on a pint at his local).

[Morals]

£6 each would be £18 Sidla

[Sidders]

No because the waiter wasn't paying anything.

Therefore the ladies paid £6 each

[Sidders]

Oh yeah sorry my mistake, there were 3 ladies. Well my argument still works, it's just that the ladies paid 4 pounds each.

[M+L Fan II]

oh yeah, I get it now. You can't add the £2 that the waiter pocketed on because that would have taken away from the total not added to it.

£15
-£3 for the old ladies
=£12
£3 pound left over instead of £2.
Well actually no.
You deduct the £2 that the waiter kept.
£15
-£3 for the old ladies
-£2 for the waiter
=£10
-£15
=£5(3x£1 + 1x£2)

Well I did explain it 17 hours earlier

[Sidders]

Yeah but my explanation was simpler, your is just a load of random numbers.