Mondays puzzle

[Alias]

Whatever happened to your Optimism? You're still a quid better off than you thought you were going to be!

(oh and your £27 includes the tip so no missing money)

[Pondlife]

I'm still struggling with a few things.

1) Are we supposed to believe that a scouser would spend almost a tenner on lunch.
2) Ditto for leaving a tip
3) Also for coming clean about the cost reduction
and finally
4) The most outlandish bit is that they would trust one of them to take the £30 cash and walk towards the exit without doing a runner.

Nope, something's not right.

[TheFaQQer]

so they each paid 9 quid = £27. plus a 2 pound tip = £29

You're mixing cost and cash.

[barrydidit]

The agent has it.

[EternalOptimist]

Basically the question is wrong. As one of the friends was a scouser, the correct puzzle should be,


Three friends go to a restaurant, they have a tenner each.
One of them takes the thirty pounds to the till and finds the bill is £25
he puts 2 quid on the table as a tip, and gives himself and the others a pound
so they each paid 9 quid = £27. plus a 2 pound tip = £29

Who stole the charity box?

I understand why you are upset. It was bad news over the weekend, learning that you will have to power up your electricals before flying to the USA. If your vibrating butt plug doesn't get through security, you would be devastated

[EternalOptimist]

I'm still struggling with a few things.

1) Are we supposed to believe that a scouser would spend almost a tenner on lunch.
2) Ditto for leaving a tip
3) Also for coming clean about the cost reduction
and finally
4) The most outlandish bit is that they would trust one of them to take the £30 cash and walk towards the exit without doing a runner.

Nope, something's not right.

its hyperthetical. obv.

[KentPhilip]

Three friends go to a restaurant, they have a tenner each.

One of them takes the thirty pounds to the till and finds the bill is £25

he puts 2 quid on the table as a tip, and gives himself and the others a pound

so they each paid 9 quid = £27. plus a 2 pound tip = £29


where did the other pound go ?

They each paid 9 quid, but that included the 2 pound tip, because the 2 pounds came out of the 3 * 9 quid that they paid.
So adding on the 2 pound tip implies that they made a second 2 pound tip over the top of the one what they had already made. Which would make for a happy waiter, but £2 less to put into the pub fruit machine that they go to next, a little sozzled.

[MarillionFan]

I'm still struggling with a few things.

1) Are we supposed to believe that a scouser would spend almost a tenner on lunch.
2) Ditto for leaving a tip
3) Also for coming clean about the cost reduction
and finally
4) The most outlandish bit is that they would trust one of them to take the £30 cash and walk towards the exit without doing a runner.

Nope, something's not right.

Who nicked the car to get home?

[CloudWalker]

The agent has it.

[EternalOptimist]

ok, here is another one.

no scouser jokes, or youse are barred.

let x = .9999 recurring

therefore 10x = 9.9999 recurring

subtract x from each side
9x = 9.9999(recurring) -x

therefore, as x = .9999(recurring)
9x = 9

divide both sides by 9
x = 1


so. is x = to .9999(recurring) or is x = 1

or drumroll..... is .9999(recurring) = 1